Antonio Salerno

Antonio Salerno graduated magna cum laude in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Genova in 1989. After some years as systems engineer at IBM, in 1996 he took a Ph.D. in Energetics at the University Politecnico di Milano. From 1996 to 1998 he was Research Assistant at the Institut für Kunststoffprüfung und Kunststoffkunde of the University of Stuttagrt in Germany. From 1998 to 2000 he was Auxiliary Agent at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. From 2000 he is at the Department of Energy of the University Politecnico di Milano, where he is now Associate professor and lecturer of Applied thermodynamics and heat transfer.
In 2006 he passed the Italian Qualifying Exam to become Italian patent attorney and in 2014 he became European patent attorney after having passed the European Qualifying Exam. Form 2007 he is director of the Industrial Property patents and trademark courses at the University Politecnico di Milano. Co-autor of a book in 2011: M.e F. Andreolini, S. Marzocchi, A. Salerno Marchi e brevetti, guida teorico-pratica alla Proprietà Industriale, Gruppo Editoriale Esselibri-Simone.
In 2008 and in 2015 he attended the Praktika Intern at the European Patent Office in Munich and in The Hague. In 2016 he was appointed Technical expert in IP matters by the Court of Bolzano. He is consultant of several companies in the field of Industrial Property.