Seiko Hidaka

Seiko Hidaka is a Director within the IP team in London. She has extensive experience as a skilled IP litigator advising leading global businesses in relation to the most litigated and rapidly advancing areas of technology and life sciences, such as data, wireless technology and other standard essential patents, green tech, new therapeutic advances, e-cigarettes, algorithmic inventions and digital payment solutions. She has also played key roles in breach of confidence cases which have become prevalent in the recent years, from financial algorithms to military secrets.

Seiko has a distinctly international approach to crafting strategies and cost-effective solutions to clients having regard to commercial practices, logistics, trends and jurisdictional differences from her experience handling a number of disputes involving multiple parallel proceedings across the globe.

She has an interest in policy issues and have actively worked with one of the most highly respected industry association in the UK to shape the future of IP policies in the UK and around the world. She has also appeared as a panelist providing views for the Japanese industry at a forum hosted by the Japanese government.