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James Judge – Osaka

  • Japanese-fluent U.S. patent agent who has lived in Japan for nearly 35 years.
  • Princeton University graduate with extensive scientific education in physics, electronics, and biology.
  • Founder and twenty-year operator of independent U.S. patent-prosecution practice in Kansai.  Of-record prosecuting agent on some 800 U.S. applications mainly involving electromechanical devices, precision mechanisms, medical instruments, telecommunications, optical devices and device materials, and semiconductor devices.  Drafter of more than a dozen patent specifications from scratch.
  • Patent-specification translation reviser with thirty years’ experience.  Patent-specification translator with twenty-five years’ experience.
  • Veteran patent translation and prosecution consultant in Japanese patent attorney firms, and in two major industrial and commercial manufacturing companies.

Karan Singh – New York/Princeton & Tokyo/Osaka

  • Intellectual property lawyer since 1992.
  • International business-transactions and litigation expert; Trademark and copyright practitioner; Patent-application preparation and prosecution expert; Infringement and validity analyst relating to intellectual property matters.
  • Patent-litigation and dispute-resolution veteran; Joint-venture and licensing-and-technology-transfer negotiator.
  • Former IP counsel at Japan headquarters of global oilfield service company.
  • Graduate of Georgetown University Law School.  Career veteran of Ostrolenk Faber1, premier intellectual property law firm in New York, with a nearly 100-year history.
  • Long-term Japan residency: Former IP counsel for Japanese subsidiary of major international corporation; Former IP law firm advisor in Japan.
  • Representative of major Japanese and U.S. corporate clients in intellectual-property-related matters.
  • Years-long collaborator with Judge in patent prosecution prior to joining j-pat Legal.
  1. Robert Faber was the author of Faber on the Mechanics of Patent Claim Drafting, at least as well-known in Japan as was Landis on the Mechanics of Patent Claim Drafting, the third, fourth and fifth editions of which Mr. Faber was also the author. ↩︎
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