Kentaro Ono holds a B.Eng. in Mechanical and Systems Engineering from Doshisha University, and began his career at Matsushita Electric Works Ltd. as a printed wiring board engineer. He has been involved in intellectual property since 2004, and he was admitted to practice as a Japanese patent attorney in 2006. He assists in the preparetion of patent applicatios in the mechanical fields. He is a member of the Japanese Patent Attorneys Association.