About
Intellectual Property Division
The Intellectual Property Division conducts educational activities and supports the creation of intellectual property (IP) generated from the results of research conducted at Keio University. This is accomplished by working together with the Open Innovation Division and the Startup Division to find applications for research results in the real world, and maximizing their value as IPs through proper rights acquisition, maintenance, and utilization (technology transfer).
Member
Satoshi Ishimaru
Project Assistant Professor
Satoshi Ishimaru
Project Assistant Professor
From 1988 to 1995, Ishimaru worked as a research assistant at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Science, after which he did bioscience research as a postdoctoral fellow at the Rockefeller Institute and the Osaka Bioscience Institute. In 2005, Satoshi began a 7-year stint as a patent examiner in the Biotechnology Department of the JPO, during which time he examined patents in biotechnology and food. He then worked for a patent firm for a year and a half, after which he moved to the National Institute of Biomedical Innovation (NIBIO) and the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED), where he supported for drug discovery in academia. Ishimura worked for Astellas Pharma in the Research Planning and Intellectual Property departments for about 3.5 years starting in February 2018, and for two years from October 2021, he worked at Ribomic, a drug discovery venture derived from the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Tokyo, as the Director of Intellectual Property and Science. Since October 2023, Ishimaru has been working in the Intellectual Property Division of the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Satoshi graduated from Kyushu University with a Bachelor of Science degree, and completed a master’s degree from Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Science.
He is also a patent attorney, with a Ph.D. in Science from the University of Tokyo
Yuuko Toya
Project Assistant Professor
Yuuko Toya
Project Assistant Professor
After becoming a licensed attorney in 2003, Toya worked at a law firm handling patent litigation and other legal disputes and cases related to intellectual property rights. Later, when an ailing family member needed extra care due to an intractable disease, Toya decided to leave the firm and start their own, simultaneously entering graduate school for medical science. Toya is currently engaged in work supporting intellectual property from an academic standpoint, harnessing the experience gained in graduate school pertaining to the host of issues that can arise in the process of carrying out academic research, such as the particular rules regarding the handling of intellectual property and data. In 2014, Toya was put in charge of Keio University’s IP-related legal services. In 2018, they were appointed as Project Associate Professor at the Office for Research Coordination and Administration (RCA) and Toya moved to the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in April 2023.
Toya graduated from Keio University (Department of Law, Faculty of Law), completed graduate studies at the Teikyo University Graduate School of Public Health, and accomplished credits for doctoral program in Public Health from the Teikyo University School of Medicine (Department of Hygiene and Public Health).
Attorney at Law, Ph.D. in Medicine, Master of Public Health