Tomoko Ishihara

TOMOKO ISHIHARA​ received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Toho University in 1990 and her Juris Doctor degree from Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law in 2010. Ms. Ishihara has broad experience in patent application preparation and prosecution in the mechanical/electrical field, specifically with a variety of mechanical devices (e.g., wind turbines, mounting devices, screen printers, component embedded substrates, filters, fans, production systems, smartphones/tablets/remote controlling devices, plasma processing, imaging apparatuses, hearing aids, endoscopes, injection devices, optical unit, display device, lighting control device, vehicle lamp, vehicle air conditioning device, electric compressor); construction of semiconductor devices; gyro sensors; accelerometers; microcapillaries; material science/chemistry (e.g., LEDs, MOS, semiconductor substrates, thermoplastic materials, optical materials, batteries), bio-pharmaceuticals (e.g., animal cell cultures, animal cell fermentation, antibody-drug, material production using microorganisms), chemical field in organic/inorganic chemistry (e.g., semiconductor materials, silica particles, silicon-coating polymer, wavelength conversion film, surface treatment liquid, quantum dots, photo sensitive composition), and food industry field (e.g., oily food, vegetable protein, starch, emulsion, animal feed). She has experience in U.S. and Hague design patent application preparation and prosecution, as well as in U.S. and Madrid trademark application preparation and prosecution.

Ms. Ishihara worked at Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. as a Biomedical Research Engineer in the Bioengineering Section, where she engaged in pharmaceutically useful antibody producing human-human hybridoma cell culture/fermentation research, and as a Research Coordinator in the Research Coordination Office. She is a named inventor on two Japanese patent applications for Mitsui Chemicals. While attending Toho University, she worked as an Undergraduate Research Assistant in the Laboratory of Embryology and has experience as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the National Institute of Radiological Sciences.

In addition to her native Japanese, Tomoko speaks fluent English.

Tomoko is a member of the Cleveland Intellectual Property Law Association and the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA).