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Career:
Dissertation work in an interdisciplinary field of materials science and neuroscience performed at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics laboratory (JHU-APL), the National Institute of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and the Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, DC). Received Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University (MD/USA) in 1994. Post-doctoral scientist at Max-Plank Institute in Mainz (1994). Continued research in the same field at the Institute for Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) and JHU-APL with research grants from Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and U.S. Department of Defense (1995-2000). Author of a number of publications in the area of neuroscience and biomaterials.
Entered patent practice with a patent law firm in Tokyo (2000-2004). Studied Intellectual Property Law at Franklin Pierce Law Center in NH/USA (JD, 2007). Summer associate/intern positions with law firms in Washington, DC and Munich. Passed the U.S. Patent Bar Examination in 2007. With Hoffmann ยท Eitle since 2007.
Personal:
Leisure interests include Japanese marshal arts, European classical music and the American shorthair cat.
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