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Senior Partner
Akimitsu Hirai
Attorney at Law & Tax Attorney
Adjunct Professor, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Adjunct Professor, Tokushima University
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Management of venture company, Intellectual Property, Corporation, International
Transaction (license agreement, collaborative research agreement), Technology
Transfer matters
Especially, Biotechnology and IT Technology related matters |
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Mr. Hirai was admitted as an attorney in 1990. Mr. Hirai's practice currently
involves mainly management of a venture company. Mr. Hirai possesses broad
experience in negotiating and drafting international license agreements
for various types of intellectual property, with a special focus on cutting-edge
technology such as biotechnology and software. Then, Mr. HIrai moves to
focus on managing a venture company as a board member and CEO.
Mr. Hirai has an LL.M degree from the University of Washington, School
of Law. He spent 2 years at the University of Washington, including 9 months
of research study at CASRIP as a research fellow. He concentrated on biotechnology,
with a special focus on the comparative study of biotechnology protection
in the United States and Japan and has written several articles on the
issue of protection of biotechnology. Mr. Hirai also spent several months
at an IP firm in Seattle and was involved in U.S. IP practices.
After Mr. Hirai came back to Japan, he joined a major international law
firm where he was involved in international licensing matters and patent
and trademark infringement cases. Mr. Hirai was also a legal counselor
for the Office of Technology Transfer of the University of Tokyo at the
very beginning.
He has appointed to successive posts on many governmental committees concerning
industry-academia-government collaboration. He has also given lectures
about technology transfer and Intellectual Property Law at universities
and OTTs.
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