Patent Department:SOEI Patent & Law Firm

Mr. Noda graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1985, where he studied Precision Mechanical Engineering in the Engineering Department. After graduation, he worked at Recruit Co., Ltd., for over nine years where he engaged in the development and maintenance of large-scaled general-purpose computer systems in cooperation with IBM Japan. In 1995, he began working for a patent firm in Tokyo, where he was in charge of patent applications relating to copying machines, facsimiles, image-development processing systems, etc.
Since joining SOEI in 2000, he has been handling prosecutions, appeals, expert opinions and consultations in the fields of telecommunications, mobile communication systems, wireless LAN, computer networking devices, data recording devices, computer software, digital signal processing, image processing, encryption/decryption, optical devices, mechanical devices, printer/copier/fax machine. He joined the Japan Patent Attorneys Association (JPAA) in 2002. He is currently a member of the JPAA's International Activities Center, and he sometimes serves as a delegate international intellectual property conferences and meetings.