Leadership

Hideki Sanatake is Executive Officer at Canon Inc. in Tokyo, Japan and serves as Deputy Group Executive of Corporate Intellectual Property and Legal Headquarters at Canon Inc. Mr. Sanatake has over thirty years of patent litigation and licensing experiences, 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.