Name: Masakazu Okamura (Patent and Trademark Attorney Reg. No. 13449, Registered
in 2004)
Hometown: Suginami, Tokyo, JAPAN
Biography: Graduated from the Faculty of Sociology, Psychology, and Education of Keio
University, JAPAN
Worked for Miyoshi & Miyoshi (Design and Trademark Dep.)
Membership: Japan Patent Attorneys Association (A member of Unfair Competition Prevention Law Committee) Kanto Area of Japan Patent Attorneys Association Kanto Affiliate （A member of Tokyo Committee) Japan Trademark Association (A member of Brand Management Committee)
Contribution: Nikkei Business Publications, Inc., Intellectual Property Awareness
“The function the trademark takes in activating a local brand”
“The merits and problems in utilizing regional collective trademarks”
“JPO considers the introduction of new type of trademarks at the revision
of trademark law in 2010”
“Coca Cola(Japan) Co., Ltd. won a case by utilizing a result of fair brand
recollection survey”
Pomology Magazine: “Trademark registration of local brand”
Lecture: General Information for Trademark Introduction (September, 2005)
Trademark Basic for CEOs (June, 2007)
Limitation of the effect of trademark rights of Trademark Act Art.26, Sec.1,
#1 (November, 2009)
Intellectual Property Training Seminar for Sales Department (December,
2011)
Intellectual Property Training Seminar for Sales Department (February,
2012)
Precedent on Unfair Competition Prevention Law Art. 2, Sec.1, #13 concerning
Quality Misrepresentation of Car Wax Claiming “No Wax for 5 years”(March,
2013)
New Type of Trademarks such as Movement, Hologram, Color, Sound, and Location,
especially Trademark that is composed by colors alone (July, 2015)
“Don’t Use Trademark in such way” (December, 2015)
Other Career: Intellectual Property Adviser of Entrepreneur General Support Center of
Organization for Small & Mediu Enterprises and Regional Innovation, JAPAN
