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Prof. Tomoko Sugano

Professor, Institute of Industrial Science (IIS),
Deputy Director General, Division of University Corporate Relations (DUCR),
Director, Strategic Public Relations Planning Office,
The University of Tokyo
Patent Attorney

After joining the Japan Patent Office (JPO), she was engaged in patent examination and appeal examination in a wide range of technical fields, including semiconductor processes and devices, food, microorganisms, and cosmetics. In 2021, she was appointed as a director of the division of alloys and chemical batteries like lithium-ion batteries and fuel batteries.

Until she left the JPO in 2021, she was the first Director of the Public Relations Office at the JPO, where she established a new public relations strategy and system. She also served as the Director of Patent Strategy Planning, where she tried to enlighten major corporate executives on the importance of intellectual property management.

Currently, she is the Deputy Director General of the division of University Corporate Relations in the University of Tokyo and oversees the University of Tokyo’s industry-university collaboration activities.

She is a licensed patent attorney.

The list of research publications

  • T. Sugano, “Trends of patent applications in high technology field.”,
    Law and computers,27,3, (2009).
  • K. Nakayama, T. Sugano, K. Ohmori, A.W. Signor, and J. H. Weaver,
    “Chemical fingerprinting at the atomic level with scanning tunneling
    spectroscopy.”, Surface Science, 600, 716 (2006).
  • K. Nakayama, M. Alemarny, T. Sugano, et al., “Electronic structure of Si
    (011)-c (4×2) analyzed by scanning tunneling spectroscopy and ab initio
    simulations.”, Physical Review B 73, 035330 (2006).
  • T. Sugano, N. Ohashi, T. Tsurumi, and O. Fukunaga, “Pressure and
    temperature region of diamond formation in systems graphite and Fe
    containing alloy”, Diamond and Related Materials 5, 29 (1996).
  • O. Fukunaga, M. Iizuka and T. Sugano:
    Formation Pressure Temperature Region of Diamond Using Alloy Solvent Catalyst.
    AIP Conference Proceedings 309, (1994), p.531

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