Watanabe Yoshiyuki
Partner
Practice Areas：
Intellectual Property Rights
Dispute Resolution
Corporate
Instruments and Exchange Act
Private Equity
Languages：
Japanese
English
Careers
2001
Kaisei High School
2005
The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law
2007
The University of Tokyo Law School
2008
Admitted to the Bar (Tokyo Bar Association)
2011-2014
Seconded to Daiwa Securities SMBC Principal Investments Co. Ltd.（currently: Daiwa PI Partners Co. Ltd.）Self-Investment Department, Private Equity Fund Division
2014
Passed Level 2 Securities Analyst Examination (unregistered)
2016
Passed CPA Final Examination (unregistered)
2017
Harvard Law School（LL.M.）
2018
Registered as a patent attorney (Japan Patent Attorneys Association)
2020
Admitted to the New York Bar
Interviews
Dialogue: The Present and Future of Intellectual Property Law Partner Misao Shimizu × Partner Yoshiyuki Watanabe
Dialogue: At the Forefront of Litigation and Dispute Resolution—The [Front Lines] Where All of a Lawyer's Capabilities Are Put to the Test Representative Partner Kazuhiro Yanagida× Partner Mitsuhito Taki× Partner Yoshiyuki Watanabe
Publications
"Implementation in Cross-Border Cases: Focusing on 'Transfer, etc.'" Included in "Toward the Future of Diversifying Intellectual Property Litigation: A Festschrift for Professor Misao Shimizu on His 70th Birthday," Nihon Kajo Publishing (October 2023)
2023
"Report on the 2020 Industrial Economy Research Commissioned Project (Economic and Industrial Policy/Fourth Industrial Revolution Related Research Expenses) (Survey on Recent Trends in the Competitive Environment and Competition Policy, etc.) Report" Commissioned by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Contractor: Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.)
2021
"Whether Retweeting Constitutes Infringement of Moral Rights in Copyright" Business Law Journal (Issue 136 (July 2019))
2019
Seminar
"Product Indications under the Unfair Competition Prevention Act: Focusing on the Specification of Product Form" Intellectual Property Practice Lecture Series (Session 7) Organized by Visiting Professor Takabayashi (Co-hosted by Yamaguchi University Faculty of International Integrated Sciences and Intellectual Property Center)
2024
