Experience

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  Panasonic

  • Osaka, Japan

  • Patents Licensing Expert

    • Jun 2004 - Oct 2012
    • Osaka, Japan

    Senior Patent Licensing expert at IPR department of headquarter (2004 – present)- Project Leader of several licensing negotiation in patent pool formation.- Case 1: Participated in a patent pool of a private standardizing organization of worldwide fame in the audio-video communication specification as a main negotiator. - Case 2: Participated in a private standardizing organization of state-of-the-art technology in the data communication system. - Case 3: Participated in a world-famous patent pool of mobile communication as a main negotiator. In this case, there are many kinds of problems in not only the program of the pool but also in the licensing agent. I provided other licensors with the improvement plan of the program and the performance of the licensing agent. - Project Leader of several bi- lateral patents licensing negotiation.- I have some experiences of bi-lateral patent licensing negotiation with the patent owner companies. In these cases, I worked as a main negotiator with a team including technical engineer, patent engineer and legal counsel. In such negotiations, there is no definitive landing point, so the important role of negotiator is to find out their target through the discussion and alter the situation to our advantage. To get a success, the magic formula of such negotiation is “ two-step-forward-one-steps-back” .

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  Panasonic

  • United States
  • Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Marketing Leader and Negotiator of International technical alliance

    • 1997 - 2004

    - Project Leader of high speed PLC (Power Line Communication) technology development- Promoted a joint development project with an U.S. start- up company in New Jersey.- Participated in a standard developing alliance group of PLC in the U.S. as a delegate of my company.- Delivered a lecture at CEATEC in Oct. 2001 titled “Current situation of High Speed Power line Communication” speaking development trend and future possibilities of PLC.- Established a specification of PLC products with customers and reflected it into the development project as a sales engineer.- Developed a market of newly developed technical field as PLC as sales engineer. The major targets were electric power companies, NTT group, JR group and public offices.- Published an introductly book titled “Mechanism of next generation communication with illustration” on Apr., 2002 printed by Mainichi Communications as a coauthor.- Worked as a chairman of a committee on public information of PLC-J, an industry group of Power Line Communication in Japan and conducted promotion of PLC.- Participated in the first PLC World Summit in Brussels on June, 2003.- Co-organized “a lecture meeting of Power Line Communication” with New Social System Laboratory.

  • Marketing and Environmental Project Leader at European Department

    • 1989 - 1997

    - Project leader of environmental protection issues of consumer electronics products to comply with newly developed environmental registration in European countries such as Germany, Austria and so on.

  • Home Network Engineer

    • 1982 - 1989

    - Developed home network and telephone oriented communication systems at Corporate Central Research laboratory.- Joint development of AVC network system with Philips and some other European companies. (Netherlands)

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  HomePlug Alliance

  • Technical Working Group, Marketing Working Group

    • 2000 - 2003