is a Japanese architect and

patent attorney A patent attorney is an Lawyer, attorney who has the specialized qualifications necessary for representing clients in obtaining patents and acting in all matters and procedures relating to patent law and practice, such as filing patent applications ...

. He is Principal Patent Attorney of

Sugimura & Partners formerly known as Sugimura International Patent and Trademark Attorneys is an intellectual property law firm based in Japan. The firm has an international presence, representing clients from around the world. The firm represents more than 200 cl ...

Early life

Sugimura was born in

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...

, in 1953 as a grandson of

Nobuchika Sugimura was a Japanese inventor and patent attorney. He was the first chairman of the Japan Patent Attorneys Association. Career After graduating from the University of Tokyo, Nobuchika joined Shibaura Seisakusho as a mechanical engineer. During his car ...

, the founder of

Sugimura International Patent and Trademark Attorneys formerly known as Sugimura International Patent and Trademark Attorneys is an intellectual property law firm based in Japan. The firm has an international presence, representing clients from around the world. The firm represents more than 200 c ...

. He went to Musashi High School and

Waseda University , mottoeng = Independence of scholarship , established = 21 October 1882 , type = Private , endowment = , president = Aiji Tanaka , city = Shinjuku , state = Tokyo , country = Japan , students = 47,959 , undergrad = 39,382 , postgrad ...

, where he majored in architecture.

Career

Architect

Sugimura is a registered architect in Japan and the U.K. He was employed in the architectural firm of

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in London from 1978 to 1983, and was a representative in Hong Kong from 1983 to 1986. He was involved in the construction of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Headquarters in Hong Kong. Then he founded, with his partner

Roy Fleetwood Roy Fleetwood (born 1946 in London) is a British architect and designer. He is director of the ''Office for Design Strategy'' in Cambridge, England. Life From 1965 to 1971, Fleetwood studied Architecture in Liverpool and a scholarship in Rome ...

, the architectural firm Sugimura Fleetwood Architects and Engineers in Tokyo in 1988.

Patent attorney

After a 25-year career as an architect, Sugimura became a patent attorney. In 2006, he succeeded to the family business and took over the presidency of Sugimura International Patent and Trademark Attorneys. He is involved in IP organizations, such as

AIPPI The International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property or AIPPI, an acronym for ''Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle'' in French (formerly ''International Association for the Protectio ...

, APAA,

FICPI The International Federation of Intellectual Property AttorneysFICPIStatutes - Rules - Code of Conduct May 2015, Article 1. (french: Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Intellectuelle, FICPI; formerly known as the Internationa ...

INTA Inta (russian: Инта́, kv, Инта) is a town in the Komi Republic, Russia. Population: History Inta was founded circa 1940 as a settlement to support a geological expedition to explore coal deposits and projecting of mines. The city's n ...

, and the

JPAA The ''Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering that part of algebra likely to be of general mathematical interest: algebraic results with immediate applications, and the development of algebraic t ...

. He serves as a member of the board of FICPI-Japan and on JPAA's International Activities Center subcommittee. He has authored several articles on Japanese IP practice in international IP magazines. His writings focus on new changes and trends in Japanese IP practice, general differences between Japanese IP practice and IP practices in the US and Europe, and industry specific opportunities within the Japanese IP market. He was elected as a vice president of

in 2020.

Main works

YKK Manufacturing and Engineering Centre YKK Manufacturing and Engineering Centre is a manufacturing plant and a R&D center of YKK AP which is a subsidiary company of YKK Group. It is located in Namerikawa, Toyama (situated between the Japanese Alps and Toyoma Bay), and was opened on Oct ...

(1992) *

Setagaya Literary Museum The is an art museum in Minami-Karasuyama, Setagaya, Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as E ...

(1995)

Awards

*G-Mark Award from the Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization (YKK Manufacturing and Engineering Centre) *Ecomark Award from the Japan Environment Association (YKK Manufacturing and Engineering Centre)

Publications

*N. Foster, K. Sugimura, *Kenji Sugimura, *Kenji Sugimura, *N. Foster, D. Sudjic, T. Fitzpatrick, M. Glover, C. Seddon, K. Sugimura, J. Zunz, *N. Foster, T. Nakamura, C. Abel, C. Seddon, K. Sugimura, *Kenji Sugimura, *Kenji Sugimura, *Kenji Sugimura et al., *Kenji Sugimura, *Kenji Sugimura, Takahiro Yamazaki, *Kenji Sugimura, Rebecca Chen, *Kenji Sugimura, Rebecca Chen, *Kenji Sugimura, Rebecca Chen,

References

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