STAFF

YOSHIHIRO KIYOHARA Founder/ Patent Attorney
People

In 1949, He was born in Osaka Prefecture. After graduating from prefectural high school, he majored in forest chemistry at Tokyo university of Education (present University of Tsukuba) for his undergraduate and graduate degrees. In 1973, he broke into the patent industry in Tokyo, and then in 1976 he passed the patent attorney examination. In 1978, he founded KIYOHARA & CO., PATENT ATTORNEYS in Kita Ward, Osaka City. Since then, he has dedicated himself to patent professional service for half a century.

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KIYOHARA & CO., PATENT ATTORNEYS has been involved in technology development and invention protection activities of companies and universities, and for many years we have been engaged in activities not only to acquire rights in intellectual property in Japan and abroad, but also to protect the rights.
One of our office’s “Ideas (Themes)” is “idea creation and training for research and development”. By training engineers and researchers to find inventions from wide aspects in a variety of situations, our own creative power and development capability will be enriched.

Career
  • 1967
    Graduated from Osaka Prefecture Tondabayashi Senior High School.
  • 1973
    Graduated from Tokyo University of Education (present: University of Tsukuba) with a MA degree.
  • 1978
    Established Kiyohara & Co., Patent Attorneys.
  • 1988
    Appointed as a "catalyzer" of Department of Commerce Industry and Labor, Osaka Prefectural Government.
  • 1992-2001
    Joined as a supporting party in Foundation for Osaka Research-Enterprise Companies.
  • 2004-2015
    Appointed as a guest professor in the Intellectual Property Office at Kochi University of Technology.
  • 2008-2009
    Elected as a vice-chairperson of Japan Patent Attorneys Association.
  • 2010
    Appointed as an instructor for Mold Design Human Resource Development Course of Nippon Institute of Technology.
  • 2017
    Elected as a vice-chairperson of the permanent committee of Japan Patent Attorneys Association.