Takashi Saito is an associate in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Takashi focuses his practice on patent prosecution in the area of electronic devices, processes, materials and circuitries.
Takashi has worked as a research engineer in a semiconductor process technology area and as an intellectual property specialist for several divisions of a global consumer electronics manufacturer, where he handled a variety of IP matters including patent applications, patent infringement and trademarks.
Takashi authored several technical papers in a semiconductor process area in different academic journals and at international conferences. He is a first inventor of two U.S. patents and several Japanese patents. He also authored “Dressing Design Patent: A Proposal for Amending the Design Patent law in Light of Trade Dress,” which was published in the Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society (August 2007).
Takashi earned his J.D. from Franklin Pierce Law Center. He earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Kyoto University. He was also registered as a patent attorney in Japan (2001-2005).
Takashi is admitted to practice in the state of New York and the District of Columbia.
Education
- Franklin Pierce Law Center, J.D. (cum laude), 2008
- Kyoto University, M.E., 1990
- Kyoto University, B.S., 1988
Languages Spoken
- English
- Japanese
