About Rikiya Sato

Rikiya Sato is a partner at TMI Associates, and his practice focuses on IP matters (especially trade marks, design, copyright, unfair competition and trade secrets). He has a vast amount of experience in invalidation and cancellation proceedings, business negotiations and IP infringement litigation. Notably, he has a wealth of experience earned from working in the Intellectual Property Policy Office of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry as a fixed-term government officer from 2007 to 2010. He has also been a lecturer on IP Law at Keio Law School since 2020. Such experience enables Rikiya to offer his clients highly specialised services for a variety of IP matters.

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