Ebata, Kohei

Kohei Ebata is a member of the IP department at Resonac Corporation and is responsible for intellectual property activities for the semiconductor materials business, including patent filing and prosecution, patent portfolio management, freedom‑to‑operate analyses, know‑how management, and patent enforcement. He works across a range of technology areas, such as polymer chemistry, adhesive materials, film materials, process materials, and semiconductor device packaging processes. Kohei has been engaged in Intellectual Property Solution Design (IPSD) activities for more than 10 years, focusing on development of IP strategy, strategic patent filing and prosecution that take market and competitive conditions into account, portfolio‑based decisions on patent abandonment, and the development of patent utilization strategies.