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| 1988 |
Bachelor of Material Engineering, Waseda University, Science and Engineering Faculty |
| 1988-2006 |
Japan Patent Office (Examiner, Appeal Examiner) |
| 1998 |
Won a scholarship by the National Personnel Authority to European Patent Office and German Patent Office |
| 2002-2005 |
Seconded to the Tokyo District Court (Judicial Research Official) |
| 2006 |
Joined Abe, Ikubo & Katayama
Registered as Patent Attorney |
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Japan Patent Attorneys Association
AIPPI
Asian Patent Attorneys Association
German-Japanese Association of Jurists
VPP (Vereinigung von Fachleuten des Gewerblichen Rechtsschutzes) |
Shimako Kato worked for Japan Patent Office as a patent examiner and a member of board of Appeal in the field of metal processing and polymer processing. She was also engaged in the amendment of the examination standards at JPO. In the IP division at the Tokyo District Court, she provided, as a Judicial Research Official, expert advices on technicality of patent properties to judges when they make judicial decisions of patent infringement cases in the chemical field and of other intellectual property cases.
She mainly deals with patent infringement cases as a patent attorney of Abe, Ikubo and Katayama, using her experience and expertise at JPO and the Tokyo District Court. |
| "The Binding Effect of the Decision in the First Lawsuit Seeking Cancelation of the BOA Decision on the Second Decision" Theories and Practice of Intellectual Property Law Vol. 1 [Patent Act [2]] compiled by Toshiaki Makino et al. Shin-Nihon-Houki (2007) (Co-author) |
| "Enablement Requirements for Product Inventions Defined by Parameters -Biaxial Stretched Film Made of Aliphatic Polyester Case-" AIPPI Vol.52 No.9 (September 2007) |
| "Theory of Inventiveness in the Chemical Field –From a View of Foreseeability of the Effects of Inventions" Patent, Vol.61 (October 2008) |
| "Enforcement of Patents in the Field of Life Science" Patent Studies, No.48 (September 2009) (Co-author) |
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