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The staff members of HIROE AND ASSOCIATES provide clients with expertise and experience in a wide range of industrial and scientific fields. Many of our members have experience as scientists in industry as well as in patent and trademark application drafting. Our expertise reflects the variety of industries prevalent in Gifu Prefecture, from high technology to textile manufacturing. Our support and translation members insure that can provide custom translation of a wide variety of documents.The firm is grouped roughly into three sections, the Patent Section, the Intellectual Property Section and the International Section. The International Section coordinates incoming and outgoing international matters with Patent and Intellectual Property Sections. The Intellectual Property Section handles all domestic and foreign patent searches, registration management, design registration, domestic trademark searches and filing, and drawings.
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Tutomu Nisio (Tsutomu Nishio) joined Hiroe and Associates in 2003 and qualified as a patent attorney in 2004. He graduated from Osaka University with a degree in industrial and mechanical engineering in 1978. Mr. Nisio has thirteen years of engineering experience, which includes designing and maintaining various production and cost management systems as well as the design and development of printing machinery for various containers.
Mr. Nisio comes to Hiroe & Associates with 6 years of experience
in the intellectual property field. His primary area of technical expertise
is with industrial machinery, but he also has extensive experience with
diagnostic and sensor technologies as used with applications ranging from
dentistry to fire and disaster control.
At Hiroe and Associates, Mr. Nisio advises clients on the prosecution
and enforcement of patents and utility models for industrial and mechanical
devices.
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Motoaki Hattori graduated with a degree in synthetic chemistry from Nagoya University in
1985. He joined Hiroe and Associates in July 2007 with over 19 years experience
in research and development of synthetic plastics for a chemical manufacturer,
as a member of a law firm, and in practice at his own firm.
He has worked with technologies including advanced materials,
automobile accessories, air conditioning equipment, other mechanical inventions,
mechatronics, semi-conductors, fuel batteries and plastic molding technologies.
Mr. Hattori is a member of the Japan Patent Attorneys Associate
(APAA).
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Kanako YASHIRO graduated from Tsuda College in 1996 with a degree in International relations.
Before joining Hiroe and Associates in 2008, she has worked for two patent
law firms. She has also lived in the United Kingdom for about three years
studying English and business communications. She qualified a patent attorney
in 2004. She has also been licensed to litigate patent infringement lawsuits
jointly with an attorney-at-law.
She mainly handles trademark matters for both domestic and foreign clients.
She is a member of the Japan Patent Attorneys Association (JPAA). She has
also been a member of the Trademark Committee in the JPAA and was assigned
as a vice-chairman of the committee in 2006.
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Hisao HASE joined Hiroe & Associates in March 2009 and registered as a member of the Japan Patent Attorneys Association in April 2009.
Mr. Hase’s experience includes ten years in electronic ceramics research
and development at the FDK Corporation, two years in precision casting
refractory research and development at Mikawa Kousan Co. Ltd., and six
years in aerospace parts development at Alcoa Howmet. His accomplishments
include being credited as the inventor on several patents.
Mr. Hase holds an undergraduate degree in Inorganic Material Engineering
from the Nagoya Institute of Technology. He has expertise in electronic
ceramics and precision casting technology.
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Taras P. Bemko has been working on a contract basis for Hiroe and Associates since June, 2009, and formally
joined the Firm in September, 2009.
Mr. Bemko holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from South Texas College
of Law, a Master of Business Administration Degree from University of Houston
- Clear Lake, and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering
from The University of Houston. Mr. Bemko has been a licensed Professional
Engineer, in Texas, since 1993. He has a technical background in the design
of wellhead equipment and as an applications engineer primarily involved
with a variety of valve designs including high pressure and high temperature
equipment. Mr. Bemko also has experience in manufacturing, technical sales,
and field service work.
Mr. Bemko has been licensed to practice law since 2002. He is registered
to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, is licensed
in the state of Texas, including the U.S. District Court for the Southern
District of Texas, and is a certified mediator.
Mr. Bemko's patent and trademark law experience includes the drafting
and prosecution of applications for patents, patentability searches and
opinions, patent validity and infringement opinions, reissue and reexamination
applications, trademark searches and applications, intellectual property
counseling, novelty opinions, licensing agreements, and counseling
cclients regarding technology transfers. Mr. Bemko's litigation experience
includes intellectual property and business tort litigation including
misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of fiduciary duties, and tortuous
interference with business and contracts.
Mr. Bemko has prepared and prosecuted patents for inventions in a variety
of areas involving the mechanical, chemical, and electrical arts, including various oil field tools and methods of use,
waste treatment, non-destructive testing and evaluation,
business methods, computers, seismic, crossbows, firefighting equipment, games,
product bagging, and custom cabinetry supports.
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This page updated October 28,2009
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