Attorney at Law / Patent Attorney

長沢 幸男Partner

裁判官として20年のキャリアを経て、弁護士・弁理士として20年間にわたり知財をはじめとする各種紛争案件を取り扱ってきた。東京地方裁判所および東京高等裁判所の知的財産部で裁判官として多くの知財訴訟を扱い、最高裁判所では知的財産訴訟担当の調査官(判事)として、最高裁判所の裁判と判例形成に携わった。裁判官として2000件を超える知財訴訟を担当した経験を活かし、退官後は数多くの知財訴訟において国内外の企業を代理。米国連邦巡回区控訴裁判所において、2度にわたり客員研究員として米国知財訴訟を研究するなど、海外の知財紛争制度にも詳しい。欧米をはじめとする外国企業のインバウンド知財訴訟を最も得意とし、各国の法律雑誌において高い評価を得てきた。

経歴

1982
University of Tokyo (LL.B.)

1984
Associate Judge

1989-
1992
Judge, Tokyo District Court (Intellectual Property Division)

1992-
1993
Research Fellow, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Chambers of Chief Judge Nies, Judge Rich and Judge Rader), The George Washington University Law School, and law firms (as part of Overseas Research Program for the Judges)

1995-
2000
Research Judge, Supreme Court of Japan (responsible for intellectual property litigations)

2000-
2003
Judge, Tokyo High Court (Intellectual Property Division)

2003
Retired as Judge
Visiting Scholar, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and The George Washington University Law School

2004
Professor at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo (~2007), Visiting Professor at Beijing University Law School and Intellectual Property School (~2005), Visiting Professor at Seoul National University Law School (~2005), Lecturer & Visiting Scholar of Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property Law (~2005)

2005-
Head of Asian Intellectual Property Strategy Research Division, Institute of Promotion for Intellectual Property

2007-
2012
Professor, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Engineering, Study of Technology Management for Innovation

資格

2004
Admitted as attorney at law and patent attorney in Japan

主な著作

Commentary on the Act on the Partial Revision of the Court Law (Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation, 2005).

Enforcing Patents in China, Japan and the United States: A Comparison (AIPPI Journal Vol.30 No.5 2005).

Settlement Conferences at Japanese Courts (AIPPI Journal Vol.32 No.1 2007).

Approach to the Appeal Practice over Decisions of Board of Appeals at Patent Office (Minjihokenkyukai Co., Ltd. 2007)

The Doctrine of Equivalent in Various Patent Regimes: Does Anybody Have it Right? (11 Yale J.L. & Tech. 261, 2009).

Looking at China from the Perspective of Intellectual Property Law (Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation, 2009).

The Examination of Technical Issues in Patent Litigation (Patent Practice in Japan and Europe: Liber Amicorum for Guntram Rahn, 2011).

主な講演

Lecture on Intellectual Property Law in Japan and Comparative Patent Law (Lecture at Intellectual Property School, Beijing University, 2004).
Intellectual Property Law in Japan (Lecture at Seoul National University Law School, 2004).
Institution of Intellectual Property Law in China and the Future of Comparative Study of Intellectual Property Law (Intellectual Property Forum, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 2004).
Practice of Intellectual Property Law (Lecture at Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 2004).
Patent Litigation in Various Countries – Insights into the Japanese perspectives (International Judges Conference on Intellectual Property Law, 2005).
International Jurisdiction of Intellectual Property Litigation in Japan (Co-hosted by the University of Tokyo and Seoul University, Japan-China-Korea Symposium of Intellectual Property, 2005).
Interview with Former Tokyo High Court Judge, Yukio Nagasawa (Joint interview of Japan Intellectual Property Association’s Journal Publication Committee and Japan Patent Attorneys Association’s Editorial Committee, 2006).
Law of Evidence in Intellectual Property Litigation in Japan (Hosted by Supreme People’s Court of People’s Republic of China, Panelist at “International Symposium for Protection of the Intellectual Property Judiciary,” 2006).
Study on International Intellectual Property Strategy (Lecture at International Intellectual Property Management Program, Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, 2010).
Comparison between Japan and China of Litigation on the Constitution (Special Lecture at The Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2010).
Comparison between Japan and Korea of Protection of Trade Secrets (Special Lecture at Seoul National University Law School, 2010).