Masafumi Motoyama holds a B.Eng. in Nuclear Engineering from Nagoya University, and worked for five years with a manufacturer in Hiroshima before entering the intellectual property field in 2000. He then worked for a patent firm in Osaka for 3 years, and joined Shinjyu in 2003. He handles the prosecution of patent applications related to machinery, control and software in particular, for the mechanical and electrical companies. Mr. Motoyama is a member of the Japanese Patent Attorneys Association.