ShogoAsaji

Experience

The following represents experience prior to joining Jones Day.

Smartphone Litigation (Tokyo District Court, Japan IP High Court, and Japan Patent Office). Member of team that successfully asserted an user-interface patent and defended against assertions of declared standards-essential patents in Japan as part of a high profile global dispute.

Toshiba Corp. v. Imation Corp., et al. (Western District of Wisconsin). Represented Toshiba Corp. in enforcing patents covering DVD technology against disc manufacturers and sellers. The jury found infringement.

AAA/ICDR Arbitration(New York). Represented a Japanese heavy equipment manufacturer in an ICDR arbitration against a U.S. aircraft leasing company.

Albemarle Corp. v. Kaneko Chemical Co., Ltd. (Tokyo District Court, Japan IP High Court, and Japan Patent Office). Represented Albemarle Corp. for a patent infringement case against a Japanese chemical company.

Seoul Semiconductor Co. v. Nichia Corporation et al. (Eastern District of Texas). Represented Nichia Corp. against assertions of infringement of short-wavelength laser diode and LED patent. The case settled shortly after the Markman hearing.

Nishiyama v. Oracle Corp. (Japan Patent Office). Obtained an opinion of noninfringement for Oracle Corp. at the JPO after patentee sought an advisory opinion of infringement by the client's in-memory data grid product.

Portable Music Player Litigation (Tokyo Customs Office, Japan). Defeated petition for import ban of U.S. client's portable music players based on allegations of patent infringement.

Lund LLC v. Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp. et al. (Eastern District of Texas). Represented Fujitsu is a patent infringement lawsuit brought by an individual inventor against Fujitsu’s laptop computers. The case settled.

Compression Labs Incorporated v. Fujitsu Computer Products of America et. al. (Eastern District of Texas). Represented Fujitsu in a patent infringement lawsuit concerning JPEG/MPEG compression technologies.

Seiko Epson Corp. v. Plus Vision Corp. (District of Oregon). Represented Plus Vision in a patent infringement lawsuit related to projection displays using DLP technology.

TAP Pharmaceutical Products, Inc., et al. v. Owl Pharmaceuticals, L.L.C., et al. (Northern District of Ohio). Represented co-plaintiff Takeda Chemical Industries in ANDA litigation relating to sustained-release formulations for treating prostate cancer. The district court found infringement and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court's judgment.

In re '639 Patent Litigation (District of Massachusetts). Represented plaintiff GlaxoSmithKline in ANDA litigation against generic manufacturers of a NSAID in trial and on appeal.

University of Rochester v. G.D. Searle Co., Inc. et al. (Western District of New York). Represented G.D. Searle and Pharmacia in a billion dollar patent infringement suit relating to G.D. Searle and Pharmacia’s Celebrex®. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the clients and the Federal Circuit affirmed.

DepoMed, Inc. v. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (Northern District of California). Represented Bristol-Myers Squibb in a patent and trade secret case involving extended release formulation for diabetes drug Glucophage®. The case settled.

Novo Nordisk A/S et al. v. Becton Dickinson & Co. (Southern District of New York). Represented Becton Dickinson in a patent infringement lawsuit alleging infringement of several patents relating to insulin injection systems. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the client.