Leadership
Hideki Sanatake
Canon Inc., Managing Executive Officer, Group Executive,
Corporate Intellectual Property and Legal Headquarters
Hideki Sanatake is the Managing Executive Officer, Group Executive, Corporate Intellectual Property and Legal Headquarters at Canon Inc. in Tokyo, Japan. Mr. Sanatake has over thirty years of patent litigation and licensing experience and oversees all of Canon’s IP litigation and licensing worldwide. He is active in many IP-focused associations and industry organizations, including serving as Chairman of the IP Committee of Japan’s Business Machine and Information System Industries Association.