Charlotte is a European Patent Attorney at Plasseraud IP. She works mainly on mechanical inventions, particularly in the fields of medical devices, consumer goods, industrial technologies and automotive components. She is involved in freedom-to-operate, drafting, validation and infringement of patents. Following a Master’s degree in mechanical engineering and a year’s experience within a company focused on the development of medical devices, Charlotte joined Plasseraud IP in 2019.

Jan Vondraš is a European and Czech patent attorney based in Prague. He has been providing his services to Plasseraud IP as an external consultant since 2024. He has held technical management positions in various international industrial companies in the US, UK, China, Czech Republic, Germany and the Netherlands. He has been involved in research and development in the areas of scientific instruments, automotive components, internal combustion engines and safety systems for hydrocarbon production. He is also the author of several inventions.

Sam Shao received his Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai University, a 211 Leading Academic Discipline Project Education Program in China. Prior to joining Cabinet Plasseraud’s Shanghai office, Plasseraud IP Limited (Shanghai) in 2012, Sam worked as an intern with Shanghai Shen-Mei Beverage & Food Co., Ltd. (Coca-Cola Shanghai) in Device Department, in 2011. And Sam worded as an intern with Parker Hannifin (Shanghai) in Global Sourcing Department, in 2011.

Hiromi Sakata-Delhon is an IP Legal Assistant at Plasseraud IP. She assists IP attorneys and other professionals on a variety of tasks focused on patent prosecution matters. She is also in charge of communicating with Japanese patent firms and companies. Previously she had experienced various business fields in Japan and France, she started her career as an assistant in an IP law firm in Paris. She joined Plasseraud IP in 2019.

Laurence Loumes is a European and French Patent Attorney at Plasseraud IP. She is also qualified to the USPTO and the Canadian Patent Office.

Dominique Hochereau worked on experimental systems for hydrogen storage applied to fuel cells and NiMH batteries at the Université Paris Sud. He later went to the Université Catholique de Louvain where he worked on solid-fluid mixing modelling. He then undertook R&D projects at the Dow Corning company technology center near Brussels. his research was geared towards an optimization of industrial mixers for extrusion processes of silicone polymers. Dominique Hochereau joined Plasseraud IP in 2008.