Mr. Onda was admitted to the Japan Patent Attorneys Association in 1966 and established ONDA TECHNO in 1968. He is a graduate of Tokyo Mercantile and Marine College (B.S. Ship Engineering) and Meijo University (L.B. Law). He has over 30 years experience in litigation, appellate practice and providing expert opinions, as well as preparing, filing, and prosecuting patent, design and trademark applications. He has done extensive consulting on industrial property subjects including over twenty years of service as a counselor to the Gifu Invention Association. More recently, he has been actively involved with product development and technology licensing. He has taught intellectual property subjects at the university level including an appointment as a lecturer on Intellectual Property at Aichi Gakuin University (1988 ~ 1991) and at Nagoya Keizai (Commercial) University (1992~1994). In addition, he has been a guest professor at the Cooperative Research Center of Gifu University since 2000. He is also a member of the Patent Attorney Association of Japan's Design Committee (Chairman in 1990). He was a vice president of the Japanese Patent Attorneys Association in 1997.