Yoshifumi Onodera

Partner, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

Yoshifumi Onodera is a partner at Mori Hamada & Matsumoto. Highly experienced in all kinds of data-related matters, he is particularly articulate in the delivery of advice to both foreign and domestic clients on complex business structures in vast industries including internet-related services, social networking services, games, music, movies and telecommunications. Most of his work relates to communication, media, competition, consumer and information laws. His expertise also extends to IP-related transactions, concerning licensing and dispute resolution aspects of a case in the subsidiary fields of infringement litigations, invalidity trials, appellate litigation and arbitration, and licensing in relation to intellectual property including patents, trademarks, and copyright. Yoshifumi is a member of the Intellectual Property Centre Committee, the Japan Federation of Bar Associations and the International Bar Association (IBA), and is an officer of the Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Committee.