Nobutaka Matsuo is a senior partner in MEBUKI IP LAW FIRM.

He has provided many clients with a wide variety of intellectual property services including not only filing and prosecution of patent, utility model, industrial design and trademark applications but also legal advice, consulting and evaluation.

He specializes in physical chemistry, organic chemistry and macromolecular chemistry. He handles inventions related to display devices, large size display apparatuses, semiconductor devices, power devices, optical devices, a wide variety of functional materials, various types of manufacturing equipment and machineries.

He previously worked as a researcher for display devices and a marketing researcher of a wide variety of new products developed in R&D division.

Senior partner in MEBUKI IP LAW FIRM, since 2017

Representative partner in MEBUKI IP Services, 2000-2017

IP Stuff in SEIKO EPSON Corp., 1991-2000

Marketing Researcher in SEIKO EPSON Corp., 1986-1991

Researcher for R&D division in SEIKO EPSON Corp, 1980-1986

Japan Patent Office and Japan Intellectual Property High Court: As Japanese Patent Attorney since 1993

B.S., Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering Science, Osaka University, 1978
M.S., Major in Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, 1980

(As a coauthor) Hiroshi TSUBOMURA, Naoto YAMAMOTO, Nobutaka MATSUO, and Yoshio OKADA, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering Science, Osaka University. “The Visible Absorption Spectrum of Waster.” Proc. Japan Acad., 56, Ser. B, No.7, 403-407 (1980).
Nobutaka Matsuo, “Proposal of “(tentative name) Application Pendency System in Patent Law.” PATENT, 49, No. 5, May. (1996).

Lecturer at many high schools in Nagano prefecture, since 2001

Lecturer at Nagano Prefecture Nanshin Institute of Technology, since 2017