{"id":791,"date":"2019-06-29T00:17:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T15:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/?post_type=professional&#038;p=791"},"modified":"2025-08-06T14:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T05:55:11","slug":"shigeru-osuga","status":"publish","type":"professional","link":"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/professionals\/shigeru-osuga\/","title":{"rendered":"Shigeru Osuga"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Shigeru Osuga has served as Of Counsel of Kitahama Partners since he joined the Tokyo Office in November 2018. Before joining the firm, Mr. Osuga had served as a judge, including in the Intellectual Property High Court, the Intellectual Property Rights Department of the Tokyo District Court (department chief), and other courts, where he mainly presided over IP-related litigation until July 2018. He has been in charge of some prominent cases, such as the recent Apple v. Samsung &#8220;bounce-back&#8221; patent litigation. He also worked for many years in the Ministry of Justice\u2019s Litigation Department, and has experience with litigation strategies. After joining Kitahama Partners, he has also worked with patent administration in areas such as training appeal examiners for the Patent Office in accordance with patent law reform hearings from the Patent Office and Institute of Intellectual Property. He would like to use this experience to assist his clients, particularly in the area of patent litigation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Work Highlights<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/5833\/\">A Provisional Disposition between a Japanese and Foreign-affiliated Company under the Unfair Competition Prevention Act.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/5829\/\">A Patent Infringement Lawsuit between a Japanese and Foreign-affiliated Company<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Written opinion of an appeal for invalidation of the registration of extension of duration of a drug patent <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Examination for an investigation committee that was commissioned by a government agency <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education \uff06 Professional Career<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Nov 2018 &#8211; Present<\/td><td>Kitahama Partners, Of Counsel<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Nov 2018<\/td><td>Admitted to practice in Japan<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jul 2018    <\/td><td>Retired from the position of Judge (based on the mandated age limit)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sep 2017<\/td><td>Yokohama Family Court, Chief Judge<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Dec 2015<\/td><td>Gifu District\/Family Court, Chief Judge<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Aug 2014<\/td><td>Kagoshima District\/Family Court, Chief Judge<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 2014<\/td><td>Intellectual Property High Court, Judge<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 2010<\/td><td>Tokyo District Court, Judge (Intellectual Property Rights Department, Chief Judge)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 2009<\/td><td>Intellectual Property High Court, Judge<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 2008<\/td><td>Ministry of Justice, Minister\u2019s Secretariat, Counsellor<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 2007<\/td><td>Ministry of Justice, Minister\u2019s Secretariat, Director of the Litigation Planning and Coordination Division<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 2005<\/td><td>Ministry of Justice, Minister\u2019s Secretariat, Director of the Civil Litigation Division<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 2004<\/td><td>Ministry of Justice, Minister\u2019s Secretariat, Director of the Administrative Litigation Division<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 2003<\/td><td>Ministry of Justice, Minister\u2019s Secretariat, Director of the Property Litigation Division<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 1999<\/td><td>Tokyo Legal Affairs Bureau, Deputy Chief of the Litigation Department<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 1996<\/td><td>Fukuoka Legal Affairs Bureau, Public Prosecutor assigned to the Litigation Department<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 1994<\/td><td>Tokyo District Court, Judge (Intellectual Property Rights Department)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 1992<\/td><td>Tokyo District Court, Assistant Judge (April 1993- Intellectual Property Rights Department)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 1984<\/td><td>Osaka District Court, Assistant Judge<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 1984<\/td><td>Graduated from the Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mar 1979<\/td><td>The University of Tokyo (LL.B.)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other Activities<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Apr 2024 \u2013 Present<\/td><td>Visiting Professor, Nihon University, College of Law<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 2022 \u2013 Present<\/td><td>Candidate Mediator, Arbitrator and Panelist, Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Feb 2021 \u2013 Present<\/td><td>Member, Examination Quality Control Subcommittee, Intellectual Property Committee, Industrial Structure Council, The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2019 &#8211; 2023<\/td><td>Lecturer, Training Course of Litigation and Practice, Japan Patent Office<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Oct 2019  &#8211;  Present<\/td><td>Civil Conciliation Commissioner, Tokyo District Court (in charge of Intellectual Property Conciliation) <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jun 2019  &#8211;  Present<\/td><td>Member, Design and Law Association <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2013  &#8211;  2014<\/td><td>Provisional Member, Industrial Property Council (in charge of patent attorney examination) <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>May 2012  &#8211;  Present<\/td><td>Commissioner, The Copyright Law Association of Japan<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jul 2011  &#8211;  Present<\/td><td>Special Member, Design Study Group of the Japan Design Protection Association<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>May 2011  &#8211;  Mar 2014<\/td><td>Expert Committee Member, Copyright Division of the Council for Cultural Affairs<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2003  &#8211;  2006<\/td><td>Member, Inspection Committee of the Second Stage Examination of the Bar Exam (Civil Law, Civil Procedure Law)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":56,"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-791","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>Shigeru Osuga -of-counsel - Kitahama Partners<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Shigeru Osuga has served as Of Counsel of Kitahama Partners since he joined the Tokyo Office in November 2018. 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