{"id":803,"date":"2019-02-20T17:02:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T08:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en\/?page_id=803"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:57:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T08:57:51","slug":"masahiro-asamura","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/masahiro-asamura\/","title":{"rendered":"Masahiro Asamura"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Masahiro Asamura<\/span><\/h3>

Senior Managing Partner, Attorney at Law, Patent Attorney<\/span><\/h4>\n\n

Patent Attorney since: 2001<\/span>\n\n\n
Lawyer since: 2007<\/span>\n\n
Registration Number: 17295 (Patent Attorney) and 38807 (Attorney-at-Law)<\/span><\/h4>\n

Masahiro Asamura is Senior Managing Partner and an experienced lawyer who manages ASAMURA IP P.C. and Asamura Law Offices. His specialism lies in IP litigation and disputes related to the patent, trademark, designs, copyright and Unfair Competition Prevention Act (UCPA) matters. He is also experienced in handling invalidation trials, warning letter correspondence, negotiations and licensing. As each case is unique, Masahiro often teams up with patent attorneys to utilize a team approach that is successful and efficient.<\/span><\/h4>\n

Prior to joining Asamura, he gained experience as a lawyer at Kagoshima District Court. At Nagashima &Hashimoto, he acted as an associate focusing on domestic and international legal disputes. He established Asamura Law Offices in 2011, a law firm that provides clients with expert legal advice in disputes concerning intellectual property rights.<\/span><\/h4>\n

As a master\u2019s degree student at the University of Edinburgh, he researched a method for quantitative analyzing iron components in soil. At Lancaster University, he conducted a research on a method for analyzing compositional changes in fumaric acid and fulvic acid by soil depth.<\/span><\/h4>\n

In addition, Masahiro was also involved in examining court cases and Japanese litigation system when he served as a member of the Japan Patent Attorneys Association\u2019s Amicus Brief Committee.<\/span><\/h4>\n

Education<\/span><\/h4>\n

BSc in Material Science from Chiba University\n\nMSc in Environmental Chemistry from University of Edinburgh\n\nMRes in Environmental Science with Distinction from Lancaster University\nJ.D. from Waseda University Law School<\/span><\/h4>\n

Languages<\/span><\/h4>\n

Japanese, English<\/span><\/h4>\n

Key Areas of Expertise<\/span><\/h4>\n

\ufeff<\/span><\/span>  \u25cf Inter-parties trials (invalidation trials and trials for cancellation)<\/span><\/span>\n  \n\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>  \n
  \u25cf Litigation rescinding trial decisions<\/span><\/span>\n \n
  \u25cf Appraisals<\/span><\/span>\n \n
  \u25cf Warning letter correspondence<\/span><\/span>\n \n
  \u25cf License negotiations,<\/span><\/span>\n \n
  \u25cf Infringement litigation<\/span><\/span>\n\n
  \u25cf Contract drafting<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

Major seminars<\/span><\/h4>\n

\u201cLatest Trends of Patent Cases in Japan: A Focus on Progressivity\u201d, 2013<\/span>\n\n\u201cDamage Calculation: Analysis of IP litigation precedents\u201d at Training Festival held by Japan Patent Attorneys <\/span>\ufeff<\/span><\/span>Association, May and August 2014<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

Publications<\/span><\/h4>\n

\u201cQ&A on Protection of Personal Information in the Social Media Age\u201d Daini Tokyo Bar Association, Nippon Hyoron Sha Co., Ltd, September 2012<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Masahiro AsamuraSenior Managing Partner, Attorney at Law, Patent Attorney Patent Attorney since: 2001 Lawyer since: 2007 Registration Number: 17295 (Patent Attorney) and 38807 (Attorney-at-Law) Masahiro Asamura is Senior Managing Partner and an experienced lawyer who manages ASAMURA IP P.C. and Asamura Law Offices. His specialism lies in IP litigation and disputes related to the patent,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"pro\/page-templates\/full-width-page.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14620,"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/803\/revisions\/14620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asamura.jp\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}