Hideyuki Fukuda has been working as a trademark attorney over thirty years.  After he worked as a trademark attorney in one of major I.P. firms in Tokyo, he interned at a well-known I.P. firm in Washington, D.C. in the years of 1990 and 1991.  In the meantime, he completed the U.S. Patent Academy.  He also attended legal programs of Harvard Law School (Program of Instruction for Lawyers) and Georgetown Law School (Trademark Law & Copyright Law).

After he returned to Japan, he established the present intellectual property firm together with patent and trademark attorneys.  Since then, he has been representing many domestic and international clients.

His legal expertise is just as broad. His practice spans trademark counseling, searching, filing, and general strategies; design counseling, searching, filing, and general strategies; trademark & design practice before the Patent Office and the Intellectual Property High Court; protection of well-known trademarks; conflict resolution; domain name matters; negotiating and drafting license agreements, and the like; copyright counseling; filing copyright applications. His practice spans trademark design filings overseas.

He was an examination committee member of the Japan Patent (Trademark) Attorneys Examination.

He received an award certificate from the Japan Patent Attorneys Association on July 1, 2008 for the reason that he contributed development of the Japan Patent Attorneys’ System.

He was a chair of INTA-Patent Office Subcommittee from April 2012 to March 2014.

He has also lectured on the laws of trademarks, unfair competition prevention, designs and copyright as a part-time lecturer at Tokai University and Meisei University.

Rikkyo University (Law)

He has published the following books.

① “U.S. PATENTS & TRADEMARK LITIGATION AND STRATEGY I” (JETRO-the Japan External Trademark Organization) (Joint Authorship)
② “U.S. PATENTS & TRADEMARK LITIGATION AND STRATEGY II” (JETRO-the Japan External Trademark Organization) (Joint Authorship)

He published the following articles.

① “Japan’s New Trademark Law: Faster, Easier, Better” (The New York Law Publishing Company – 1997)
② “To complete globally, Japan amends trademark” (The National LAW JOURNAL in the U.S. –1999)
③ “Changed to Take Effect under Revised Trademark and Design Laws” (BNA International/ World Intellectual Property Report – 2006)
④ “CHANGES OF OFFICIAL FEES AND POINTS/ TO NOTICE IN RETAIL (SHOLESALE) SERVICE APPLICTIONS IN JAPAN)” (IP LAW & BUSINESS – 2008)

He published the following translations.

① “Internet Web Pages as Trademark Specimens: In Re Dell, Inc.” (Journal of the Japanese Group AIPPI Vol. 50, No. 8, 2005)
② “The Issue of Language in UDRP Actions Regarding Domain Names: A Study within the European Community” (Journal of the Japanese Group AIPPI Vol. 51, No. 1, 2006)
③ “United States Congress Enacts New Dilution Law” (Journal of the Japanese Group AIPPI Vol. 51, No. 12, 2006)
④ “The Famous Marks Doctrine under the Paris Convention Is the Remedy Available to Foreign Entities in the Second Circuit?” (Journal of the Japanese Group AIPPI Vol. 52, No.2, 2007)
⑤ “Trademark Protection of Color Marks in the United States” (Journal of the Japanese Group AIPPI Vol. 54, No. 11, 2009)
⑥ “Trademark Protection of Color Marks in the United States” (Journal of the Japanese Group AIPPI Vol. 54, No. 11, 2009)
⑦ “Trademark Rights and Conflicts with Other Public Objectives” (Journal of the Japanese Group AIPPI Vol. 55, No. 3, 2010)
⑧ “Use of Trademark in Europe” (Journal of the Japanese Group AIPPI Vol. 55, No. 8, 2010)
⑨ “Various Aspects of Parallel Importing of Genuine Goods in the European Union” (Journal of the Japanese Group AIPPI Vol. 59, No. 9, 2014)
⑩ “Debranding (and Subsequent Re-Branding) of Goods Protected by EU Trademark Law” (Journal of the Japanese Group AIPPI Vol. 64, No. 6, 2019)

*He serviced as Moderator of “European Trademark Seminar” held by AIPPI, Japan in the year 2007.

AIPPI (Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Industrielle)
INTA (International Trademark Registration)
JPA (Japan Patent Attorneys Association)
JTA (Japan Trademark Association)
ECTA (European Communities Trade Mark Association)
CITMA (The Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys)