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Yi WU

Senior Partner/Representative of Tokyo Office/Patent Attorney


Education
2001   M.S. Architecture and Design from Kyoto Institute of Technology
1999   B.S. Architecture and Design from Kyoto Institute of Technology
1992   B.S. Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Institute of Mechanical Engineering

 

Experience
2001   Patent engineer at Sankyo Patent Attorneys Office, Osaka, Japan
2007   Joined Beijing Sunhope IP Ltd.
2007   Opened Tokyo Office and became representative of Tokyo Office
2009   Part-time lecturer for Master of Intellectual Property, Graduate School of 
            Innovation Studies, Tokyo University of Science
2012   Became a senior partner
2020   Qualified to practice as a patent attorney

 

Fields
Mechanical engineering, automobile engineering

 

Career Highlights 
Mr. Wu, after graduating from the Japanese university, started to work as a patent engineer for a Japanese patent law firm based in Osaka, Japan during which he mainly handled patent applications, Office Actions, re-examination, invalidation proceedings, freedom to operation opinion, and patent search. In his career, he represented successfully a number of Japanese companies for their patent matters in Japan and China. In 2007, he joined Beijing Sunhope and set up its Representative office in Tokyo. Since then, he has been highly acknowledged by our Japanese clients for his skills in handling complex patent issues.

 

Foreign language
Japanese, English