Pleased to co-host “Patenting AI inventions in Japan and the US” with Patrick Burns (Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.), co-chair of IPLAC – Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago‘s International Relations Committee with Arthur Yuan and Tron Fu.

About 70 members from IPLAC and the Japan Patent Attorney Association came together virtually to better understand the nuances in patent protection between the world’s largest economy and its third. IPLAC President Marc Richards and one of JPAA’s Vice Presidents Kenji SUGIMURA gave opening remarks.

Atsuko Miura (Tokai Patent) and Ryan N. Phelan (Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP) provided important legal context for each country’s protection of AI patents before joining Takeshi Iizuka (Iizuka International Patent Office), Naoki Okumura (Nakamura & Partners), and me for a virtual panel discussion.