Chiaki Kobayashi

With her fluency in Japanese and cultural appreciation, Chiaki has significant experience counseling Japanese clients on strategic intellectual property development, patent portfolio management, due diligence, patent prosecution, litigation, and pre-litigation strategies. She frequently lectures on intellectual property issues affecting Japanese companies and their global businesses. Chiaki participates in local professional associations, such as the Licensing Executives Society of Japan. She has extensive experience in litigation involving Japanese parties, and she routinely works with in-house counsel and vendors to reduce the burden of U.S. litigation on Japanese clients.

Chiaki's experience includes numerous aspects of patent litigation, including coordinating discovery, developing infringement and invalidity strategies, preparing fact and technical expert witnesses, drafting a wide range of motions and briefs, and taking and defending depositions. She has particular experience in representing pharmaceutical patent holders in litigation arising under the Hatch-Waxman Act.

While in law school, Chiaki worked at Finnegan as a summer associate and as a law clerk. As an undergraduate, she assisted in research on lipid metabolism using Nile-rat models.