Suzue Fujimori practices intellectual property law, with an emphasis on client counseling. She has extensive strategic and analytical consulting experience in a variety of industries including information technology, telecommunications, banking, retail, consumer products, automotive, and healthcare. Ms. Fujimori has counseled clients on how to develop and leverage patent portfolios, create and implement patent licensing programs, and negotiate and draft license agreements.

Immediately prior to joining Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP, Ms. Fujimori was a Director of Ocean Tomo, LLC in the Chicago office where she served as the leader of the Japan Services Team. She assisted Ocean Tomo’s Japanese clients with litigation, IP appraisal, IP Investment, IP Risk Management and IP Transactions. She also introduced Ocean Tomo’s services to the Japanese market and developed Ocean Tomo’s services to meet the needs of its Japanese clients.

Ms. Fujimori also worked as an Associate Consultant at McKinsey and Company Inc. in Japan, where she served clients in a variety of industries and provided strategic, performance improvement, and marketing advice. She also worked as a Senior Coordinator in the Business Alliances Group of the Legal Division at Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Corporation) with a focus on alliance-building, licensing and negotiating in the intellectual property area. As in-house counsel for Panasonic, Ms. Fujimori was responsible for patent litigation issues, license negotiations, drafting bylaws and policies on antitrust compliance for standard consortiums, handling IP issues for these consortiums, and conducting due diligence for stock purchase and voting right agreements. Ms. Fujimori has also worked as a Foreign Intern at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP in New York City, actively participating in patent infringement litigation and commercial litigation.

Ms. Fujimori holds an LL.M. from New York University Law School with a concentration in trade regulations and an LL.B. from Kyoto University, Japan. Ms. Fujimori also participated in the Summer Program for Foreign Lawyers at Georgetown University Law Center in 1998 and the Extension Course for Accounting at University of California, Hayward in 1998.

Published Works

• “i4i vs. Microsoft判決”から学ぶこと
  第１回　差し止め, February 22, 2010
• “知財 Show Me the Money - 第6回　知財経営で稼ぐ” 日経BP 知財Awareness, November 2009
• “知財 Show Me the Money - 第5回　産官学連携で稼ぐ” 日経BP 知財Awareness, October 2009
• “知財 Show Me the Money - 第4回　経済的特許評価で稼ぐ” 日経BP 知財Awareness, September 2009
• “知財 Show Me the Money - 第3回　定量的特許評価で稼ぐ” 日経BP 知財Awareness, August 2009
• “知財 Show Me the Money - 第2回　知財棚卸で稼ぐ - 企業の利益増に直結する知財の棚卸法” 日経BP 知財Awareness, July 2009
• “知財 Show Me the Money - 第1回　特許オークションで稼ぐ” 日経BP 知財Awareness, June 2009
• “日本発米国技術移転の実務上の留意事項” 平成20年度　外国における権利の活用祖巣新事業- 米国特許ライセンス調査報告書- March 2009
• “New monetization opportunities in a developing marketplace” Patents in the USA 2008, A guide for Japanese Executives, IAM, With Andrew Ramer and Justin Basara
• “Who Cares About Japan? Part Three” Patent Strategy & Management, Vol. 8, No. 9, February 2008, With Andrew Carter and Mark Rollins
• “Who Cares About Japan? Part Two” Patent Strategy & Management, Vol. 8, No. 3, August, 2007, With Andrew Carter and Mark Rollins
• Who Cares About Japan?” Patent Strategy & Management, Vol. 8, No. 2, July 2007, With Andrew Carter and Mark Rollins

Speaking Engagements

• “IP-based Corporate Management and Increase of Competitiveness”, Yokohama KACHI-GUMI Company Forum 2009, February 12, 2009
• “IP Auctions and IP Valuation Trends in the US”, AIPPI Seminar, February 10, 2009
• “IP Liquidation in the US –New Business Models and Necessary Skill Sets”, Patent Liquidation Symposium 2008 Toky, June 26, 2008, Tokyo Japan
• “IP Utilization Support Services in the US and Application thereof to University Technology Transfer”, International Technology Transfer Symposium, March 21, 2008, Shizuoka Japan
• “IP Liquidation – Why and How-“, International Patent Licensing Seminar 200, January 28, 2008, Tokyo Japan
• “IP Valuation in the U.S. – IP Auction”, 2007 Patent & Information Fair & Conference Japan, November 8, 2007, Tokyo Japan
• “US Patent Infringement Litigation”, Licensing Executive Society Japan, Tokyo Meeting, October 17 8, 2007, Tokyo Japan
• “Effective IP Transaction”, International Patent Licensing Seminar 2007, January 22, 2007, Tokyo Japan
• “IP Trends in the US”, Intellectual Property Association of Japan, June 17, 2006, Tokyo, Japan