Dr Shohta Ueno is an executive director, assistant general counsel, at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., a leading biopharmaceutical company where he advises the company on a broad range of complex, multi-jurisdictional disputes. While Shohta deals with all matters relating to disputes, he focuses mostly on non-US IP matters and helps the company navigate through increasingly complex IP landscape. Shohta joined Regeneron in 2018 from a leading IP litigation practice based in the UK. Shohta is also a trained scientist – he obtained a PhD in virology as well as an undergraduate degree in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge. Shohta is a member of Life Sciences and International Liaisons committee of CIPA, Pharma committee of AIPPI and council member of IP Federation. Shohta recently was named as the winner of the In-house Intellectual Property Individual of the Year at the Lexology European Awards 2026.