Masayuki Shobayashi

Founding Partner, Shobayashi International Patent & Trademark Office

Masayuki Shobayashi is the founder and president of Shobayashi International Patent & Trademark Office. He has extensive experience in patent, trademark and design law. He has also served as a university professor, as well as a board member of the Japan Patent Attorneys Association for five years. He actively recruits personnel from the Japan Patent Office (JPO) and consequently Shobayashi employs the highest number of former JPO examiners in Japan. Mr Shobayashi handles patent prosecution and is also extremely proactive with respect to developing new business fields, through IP searches and analysis and IP value appraisals. As an attorney, he handles one of the largest caseloads in Japan, in terms of IP due diligence for investments and IP value appraisals.