Dr Naho Fujimoto
German Patent Attorney
European Patent Attorney
Chemist
Naho Fujimoto advises and represents companies from the pharmaceuticals and chemicals industries with respect to patent prosecution proceedings worldwide. On account of her linguistic and cultural background, Naho's Japanese clients naturally make up a large part of her workload. While her activities mainly center on European patent prosecution, Naho also supervises and manages complex global patent families and portfolios, from filing to grant to post-grant procedures. She has many years of experience in providing strategic advice on product-related projects, including conducting state of the art searches, preparing freedom-to-operate opinions, monitoring competitor activities and participating in opposition proceedings.
Since 2019 | Partner at Maiwald |
Since 2015 | Patent attorney at Maiwald |
2013-2015 | Patent attorney trainee at Maiwald |
2012-2013 | Patent attorney trainee at a French IP law firm in Paris |
2016 | Admitted to practice as German patent attorney |
2015 | Admitted to practice as European patent attorney |
2013-2015 | Studied law for patent attorneys at the University of Hagen |
2005-2009 | Doctoral degree in the field of organic chemistry from the University of Hamburg |
1999-2005 | Studied chemistry at the University of Hamburg |
- Patent prosecution and portfolio management
- Filing strategies and drafting patent applications
- Freedom-to-operate and validity analysis
- Opposition and nullity proceedings
- Recommended in Legal 500 Deutschland 2021
- Scholarship of the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes”
- German Patent Attorney Association
- epi
- GDCh
German, Japanese, English, French