Events

Winston & Strawn co-hosted a discussion, along with the Japan-America Society, on the nuances of enforcing and protecting intellectual property rights in both the United States and Japan on March 5, 2009 in the firm's Washington, D.C. office.

This program provided information on how intellectual property law such as copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets give certain exclusive rights to various assets, including discoveries and inventions, phrases, symbols and designs. The event discussed how to protect a company's patents and trade secrets from competitors and "patent pirates," and what action to take when such valuable assets are wrongfully abused.

Winston & Strawn partners Johnny Kumar and Chip Molster, along with Tokyo-based patent attorney Yuchiro Takahashi, lead the discussion using sample lawsuits to illustrate the differences between trying a patent case in the United States versus in Japan.