Attorney at Law (California and District of Columbia)

Akira IriePartner

Akira Irie is a U.S.-qualified lawyer who frequently represents clients in disputes before U.S. district courts, the U.S. International Trade Commission, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Clients often call on him to help navigate technically challenging intellectual property disputes spanning a wide range of technologies. He has experience across all facets of litigation, having managed litigations from pre-litigation counseling all the way through trial. He has also handled adversarial patent license negotiations and commercial contract disputes. Examples of technologies that Akira works with include: chemical compositions, digital image processing, flash memory, mobile telecommunication technology, pharmaceutical compositions, rare earth magnets, and semiconductor circuit design and manufacturing.

Background

2003
Swarthmore University, Chemical Physics (B.A.)

2008
Washington University School of Law (J.D., cum laude)

2008-2011
Associate at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP (Washington, D.C.)

2011-2018
Associate at Morrison & Foerster LLP (Tokyo)

2019-2024
Partner at Morrison & Foerster LLP (Tokyo)

2024-
Partner at Isshiki & Partners

Qualifications

2008
Admitted to California

2009
Admitted to the District of Columbia

2020
Admitted to Japan as Gaikokuho-Jimu-Bengoshi

Affiliations

Akira Irie is ranked for Japan: Dispute Resolution in the 2024 edition of Chambers Asia-Pacific and in the 2023 edition of Chambers Global, and by the 2024 edition of The Legal 500 Asia Pacific as a Next Generation Partner in Japan: Intellectual Property and Japan: Dispute Resolution. He recently helped secure a 775 USD million settlement in a patent infringement action, and in a separate matter, secured a complete walkaway victory for a client who had been sued for patent infringement.