JAPANESE
Intellectual Property 
Members
Director of Intellectual Property Division
Kato, Toshio
Position：Specially Appointed Professor
Field of Expertize：Contract/Legal
Deputy Director of Intellectual Property Division
Strategy, Planning and External Affairs Group
Nakano, Kenji
Position：Specially Appointed Professor
Field of Expertize：Contract, Licensing, Trademark registration
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.
Prosecution Group
Izutani, Kenjiro
Position：Specially Appointed Associate Professor
Field of Expertize：Metal/Inorganic metals, Information Processing
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
Uejima, Hiroki
Position：Professor of Graduate School of Law
Field of Expertize：Patent Law, Computer Science
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
Inoue, Hironobu
Position：Specially Appointed Professor
Field of Expertize：Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Physics, Intellectual Property (IP)
Filing and Prosecution Group
Group Leader
Izutani, Kenjiro
Nitta, Jun
Position：Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Ph.D. in Science
Field of Expertize：Physics and Materials Science
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
Odaka, Mariko
Position：Specially Appointed Associate Professor
Field of Expertize：Life Sciencess
Nakanishi, Kento
Position：Specially Appointed Assistant Professor
Field of Expertize：Machinery and equipment
Administrative Support Staff
O. H.
S. M.
H. M.
Onodera, Megumi
S. K.
S. K.
U. K.
E. O.
Contract Group
Group Leader
Takata, Ritsuko
Position： Specially Appointed Associate Professor
Field of Expertize：Electric, Optics, Telecomminications, Medical Devices
Kobayashi, Madoka
Position：Specially Appointed Assistant Professor
Administrative Support Staff
I. K.
Strategy, Planning and HRD Group
Group Leader
Asai, Akira, Ph.D., MBA
Naridomi, Taskashi
Position：Specially Appointed Associate Professor
Administrative Support Staff
Saito, Sachie
I. H.
In charge of System
Ito, Chihiro