Ms. Chiaki Kato is a trademark attorney qualified in Japan.
Ms. Kato graduated from Meiji University, Faculty of Law, and Waseda Graduate School of Law. After working as an artist promoter in a Japanese music entertainment company, she was registered as a trademark attorney in 1995 and worked for Nakamura & Partners from 1996 to 2014. She passed the exam for qualification to represent parties in infringement actions in 2006. She joined KUBOTA in September 2015.
Since she was registered as a trademark attorney, she has been handling mainly matters regarding protection of trademarks, unfair competition, copyright, publicity rights, counterfeit and branding. In particular, as regards trademark matters, she excels at trademark prosecution and pre-litigation counseling regarding trademark infringement for a broad range of foreign and domestic clients.
She is a member of various associations, for example, she is an associate professor of Kibi International University Graduate School, the chairperson of the Trademark Committee of the Japan Patent Attorneys Association, the member of the working group of the trademark examination guidelines in the Industrial Structure Council of the Ministry of Economic, Trade and Industry, a candidate of mediators, arbitrators and panelists of the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center, and an executive board member of the Japan Trademark Association.
Ms. Kato speaks English and Japanese.
Bibliography:
Encyclopedia of Intellectual Property Right (Sanseido 2001)
Joint Trademark Right and Joint Litigation (JTA BULLETIN August 2003)
Content or Ingredient Indication and Use of Trademark (PATENT EXTRA Vol.62 Extra No.1)
Some Thoughts Concerning Name of Shopping Centre (PATENT Vol.62 No.6)
Lectures
Foreign Trademark Prosecution and the Nice Classification (IP Seminar of Thomson Reuter Professional 2012)
How to Make an Appropriate Specification (JPAA Seminar in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya 2012)