Professional experience

1970-1978 Japan Vilene Company, Ltd
1978- present Hiroe and Associates
2005- present Adjunct Processor of Gifu University (the intellectual property law)
2006-2010 Member of the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry’s border control committee for violative products against Unfair Competition Prevention Law

Publications, etc.

The latest precedents with regard to the Copyright Act, coauthored, Patent Vol. 65, No.12, 2012

Personality

2001 Awarded Merits for Intellectual Property by the Commissioner of the Japanese Patent Office
2011 Awarded Japan Yellow Ribbon Medal of Merit by the Japanese Emperor (for assiduity as a patent attorney)