Nobuyoshi Tanaka

Mr. Tanaka was appointed Assistant Judge of the Fukushima District Court in 1974. He started his career as an IP expert in 1991 as a Judge of the Intellectual Property Division of the Tokyo High Court. Mr. Tanaka served as Presiding Judge of the District Court in Tokyo and Yokohama from 2000 to 2004, as President of the District Court in Matsuyama and Nagano from 2005 to 2006, and as Presiding Judge of the Intellectual Property High Court in Tokyo from 2007 to 2009. He also worked as a counselor of the Litigation Bureau, Ministry of Justice in 1989, and as a counselor of the Minister’s Secretariat in 1998.
Mr. Tanaka was appointed as consulting attorney at law for Hiraki & Associates in 2012.

Attorney at law