JAPANESE
Intellectual Property 
Members
Director of Intellectual Property Division
Nishimura, Naofumi
Position：Director of Intellectual Property Division, Specially Appointed Professor
Field of Expertize：Physics, Architecture/Civil Engineering
Assistant Director of Head Office of Enterprise partnership
Kato, Toshio
Position：Assistant Director of Head Office of Enterprise partnership, Specially Appointed Professor
Field of Expertize：Contract/Legal
Assistant Director of Intellectual Property Division
Iino, Yurie
Position：Assistant Director, Specially Appointed Professor, Ph.D. in Engineering, Head of IP Division Administrations/Systemsr
Field of Expertize：Majored in Organic Chemistry. Being exposed to and learning various technologies in current position at Tohoku University.
Legal Counselor
Bekki, Kazuo
Position：Specially Appointed Professors with research assignments, concurrently serving on the faculty of the Graduate School of Law
Field of Expertize：Intellectual Property Law, Electric/Electronic
Matsuoka, Toru
Position：Professor of Graduate School of Law
Field of Expertize：Patent Law, Chemistry, Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology
IP Consultant
Asai, Akira, Ph.D., MBA
Position：Specially Appointed Professor
Field of Expertize：Mainly the Engineering field, as well as Biotechnology, Agriculture, Medical Engineering, Business Models
Watanabe, Isamu
Position：Specially Appointed Professor
Field of Expertize：Physics/Optics
Patent application/ Patent prosecution
Izutani, Kenjiro
Position：Specially Appointed Associate Professor
Field of Expertize：Metal/Inorganic metals, Information Processing
Nitta, Jun
Position：Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Ph.D. in Science
Field of Expertize：Physics, Organic Semiconductor
Kaneko, Hiroshi
Position：Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Doctor of Medicine
Field of Expertize：Life Sciences
Uesaka, Munetaka
Position：Specially Appointed Assistant Professor
Field of Expertize：Life Sciences
Nishina, Sanako
Position：Specially Appointed Associate Professor
Field of Expertize：Inorganic and Organic electronic materials, Optical polymer materials, Batteries and related technologies
Contract/Legal
Takata, Ritsuko
Position： Specially Appointed Associate Professor
Field of Expertize：Electric, Optics, Telecomminications, Medical Devices
Naridomi, Taskashi
Position：Specially Appointed Associate Professor
Kobayashi, Madoka
Position：Specially Appointed Assistant Professor
Intellectual property management
In charge of General affairs
Takeda, Toshiharu
Position : Specially Appointed Associate Professor
Field of Expertize : Electric/Electronic, Physics Experienced in R&D and IP work related to high-performance materials in the private corporation. Aiming to create value that contributes to the creation of a spiritually rich society from Sendai to all over Japan and the world.
I. H.
In charge of Accounting
O. H.
K. T.
S. M.
In charge of Patent application/ Patent prosecution
Onodera, Megumi
Saito, Tomomi
Y. Y.
S. K.
T. M.
U. K.
N. K.
In charge of Contract
S. K.
I. K.
In charge of System
Ito, Chihiro