Atsuya Takeshita

Atsuya Takeshita is a Japanese Industrial Property Attorney at Plasseraud IP. He is Head of the Japan Team in Paris since 2009 and advises Japanese clients in their patent filing procedures with European bodies. He has a degree of the aeronautics and astronautics of the University of Tokyo and  started his career as an engineer and project manager in the space industry (International Space Station Program (NASA/JAXA)). He continued in the finance sector at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi before moving on to the Japanese Government Science and Technology Agency where he worked on foreign patent procedures and technology transfers.