JPAA:
Trainer for new employees: “Practical Work in Applying for Design Registrations,” held by the JPAA Training Center, 2003 E008

Practical trainer: “Exercises on Design Registration Applications,” held by the JPAA Training Center, 2009–present

Patent seminar lecturer: “Design,” held by the JPAA Kinki Branch Office, 2004, 2007, 2010, and 2014

Design seminar lecturer for the JPAA Kinki Branch Office, 2014 and 2015

Patent Attorneys’ Day Festival entitled “Design and Trademarks that Reinforce Copyrights,” held by the JPAA Kinki Branch Office, 2015

Lecture entitled “The Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement,” held by the JPAA Kinki Branch Office, 2015

Lecture entitled “Case-based Foreign Design Application Filing,” held by the JPAA Kinki Branch Office, 2013

Lecture entitled “Prosecution Strategies for Trademarks and Designs,” held by the JPAA Kinki Branch Office, 2012

Lecture entitled “Strategic Use of Partial Design,” held by the JPAA Hokkaido Branch Office, 2014

Lecture entitled “Practice of Filing International Design Applications,” held by the JPAA Hokuriku Branch Office, 2014

Forum entitled “The Significance of Article 104-3 of the Patent Law in the Trademarks Law,” held by the JPAA’s Central Research Institute of Intellectual Property, 2009

Trainer for patent firm employees: “Design” and “International Treaties and European Trademarks,” held by the Patent Attorneys Cooperative Association of Japan, 2009–present

Japan Patent Office (JPO):
Panelist in charge of a presentation from the Brazilian patent office entitled “A Dialogue with Emerging Countries” at the JPO’s symposium on emerging countries, 2010

Lecturer and coordinator for the seminar on the strategic use of design and design rights in Kobe and Osaka entitled “Strategic Use of Design Rights in a Comprehensive Intellectual Property Strategy,” 2011

Bureaus of Economy, Trade and Industry:
Seminar for female entrepreneurs entitled “Best Reinforcement Practices for Your Business: Brand, Naming, and Design,” held in the Kinki district, 2015

Seminar entitled “Building Corporate Branding: An Approach to Brand Protection,” held in the Kinki district, 2015

Seminar entitled “Practice of Legal Protection and Contract Handling with Respect to Characters,” held in the Kinki district, 2014

Overseas development guidance seminar entitled “The Design and Trademark System in the EU,” held in the Kinki district, 2014

Seminar entitled “A Seminar on Cute Things,” in the Chugoku district, 2014 and 2015

Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation (JIII):
Lecturer at basic intellectual property seminar entitled “Design,” held by JIII in Osaka, 2009-present

JIII lecture entitled “Practice of Filing International Design Applications and Application Filing in the United States, Europe, and China,” held in Osaka, 2014

Lecturer at basic intellectual property seminar entitled “Related Design and Partial Design,” held by JIII in Hyogo, 2010

Lecturer at basic intellectual property seminar entitled “Definitions and Registration Requirements for Design,” held by JIII in Hyogo, 2010

JIII lectures entitled “Foreign Trademarks and Design” and “Chinese Design,” held in Hiroshima, 2011

Japan Intellectual Property Association:
Course A: “Design” and “Trademarks,” 2013–present

Japan Trademark Association:
“Trademark Trial System,” 2010–present

“The Significance of New Trademarks and Comparison with Three-dimensional Trademarks and Design,” 2015

University lectures:
“Design and Trademarks,” at Kwansei Gakuin University, 2005 E009

“Protection of Design,” at Kyoto Seika University, 2009

Other:
“The Latest Strategic Application Filing Approach for Design and Brand Protection” by the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center, 2015

“The Frontier of Design Protection” by the Japan Industrial Designers’ Association, 2015

Lecture by the Kobe City’s Design School entitled “Use of Intellectual Property Rights in the Design Field,” 2012 and 2014

“Product Package Protection,” by Thomson, 2013

“The Madrid Protocol and Watching,” by Thomson, 2012

Overseas:
“Protection of Famous And Well-Known Trademarks in Japan, Eheld by AIPLA, Washington D.C., USA, 2003

“Development of Similarity of Marks in Japan,” held by AIPLA, Washington D.C., USA, 2009

Tsai, Lee & Chen 20th anniversary event entitled “Japanese design registration and its strategy,” 2015

In addition to the above, Hiroki Matsui has given many seminars as a guest lecturer at various companies on topics such as corporate brand and design strategies.