{"id":788,"date":"2019-06-29T00:16:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T15:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/?post_type=professional&#038;p=788"},"modified":"2024-01-05T14:26:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T05:26:01","slug":"kazuo-komatsu","status":"publish","type":"professional","link":"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/professionals\/kazuo-komatsu\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazuo Komatsu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kazuo Komatsu serves as Of Counsel of Kitahama Partners. Mr. Komatsu worked as a judge for approximately 40 years before he began practice as a lawyer. When Mr. Komatsu was a judge, he was mainly in charge of civil litigation and handled various types of civil cases. In particular, he presided over cases in the areas of patent, unfair competition, copyright, and other areas of intellectual property in a specialized division for intellectual property cases of the Osaka District Court for a period of over 9 years, over 6 years of which he was engaged in a wide range of intellectual property rights lawsuits as the presiding judge. Moreover, Mr. Komatsu served as the presiding judge in the division which mainly deals with intellectual property cases of the Osaka High Court for over 4 years. Utilizing such experience, as an attorney, Mr. Komatsu has mainly been working in the area of intellectual property rights, and has been serving as an Adjunct Professor of intellectual property rights (Patent Act) at a Japanese law school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recent Case<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> Unfair competition case regarding the imitated exteriors of Komeda&#8217;s Coffee shop (litigation and provisional disposition) <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> Education &amp; Professional Career <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Aug 2015 &#8211; Present<\/td><td>Kitahama Partners, Of Counsel<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Aug 2015<\/td><td>Admitted to practice in Japan<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 2015<\/td><td>Osaka District\/Summary Court, Conciliation Commissioner of Civil Affairs<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Nov 2014<\/td><td>Retired from the position of Judge (based on age limit)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Aug 2010<\/td><td>Osaka High Court (Intensive Division for Intellectual Property Cases of the 8th Civil Division), Presiding Judge<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mar 2009<\/td><td>Osaka High Court (First Civil Division), Presiding Judge<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jul 2007<\/td><td>Nagasaki Family Court, Chief Judge<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sep 2004<\/td><td>Kobe District\/Family Court (Amagasaki Branch), Chief Judge<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 1998<\/td><td>Osaka District Court (The 21st Civil Division: Intellectual Property Division), Presiding Judge<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 1994<\/td><td>Okayama District Court, Presiding Judge<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 1991<\/td><td>Osaka District Court, Judge; Osaka High Court, Acting Judge<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 1989<\/td><td>Naha District\/Family Court, Presiding Judge<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 1986<\/td><td>Osaka District Court (The 21st Civil Division: Intellectual Property Division), Judge<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 1985<\/td><td>Appointed to the position of Judge; Akita District\/Family Court, Judge<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 1983<\/td><td>Akita District\/Family Court, Assistant Judge<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 1980<\/td><td>Urawa District\/Family Court, Assistant Judge<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 1978<\/td><td>Urawa District\/Family Court (Kawagoe Branch), Assistant Judge<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 1975<\/td><td>Graduated from the Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan; Appointed to the position of Assistant Judge; Kobe District Court, Assistant Judge<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mar 1973<\/td><td>The University of Tokyo (LL.B.)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other Activities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Jul 2018 &#8211; Present<\/td><td>Mediator, Financial Instruments Mediation Assistance Center<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jun 2018 &#8211; Present<\/td><td>Member, Osaka City Personnel Inspection Committee<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sep 2017 &#8211; Present<\/td><td>Member, Osaka Prefectural Public Interest Corporation Commission<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jun 2016 &#8211; Present<\/td><td>Outside Director, Daihatsu Diesel Mfg. Co., Ltd.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2016 &#8211; 2019<\/td><td>Adjunct Professor, Doshisha Law School (Intellectual Property Law)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2016<\/td><td>Vice-President, the Japan Federation of Conciliation Associations; President, Federation of Kinki Conciliation Associations; President, Osaka Civil Conciliation Association<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":53,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-788","professional","type-professional","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kazuo Komatsu -of-counsel - Kitahama Partners<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kazuo Komatsu serves as Of Counsel of Kitahama Partners. 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