Marco is Engineering Patent Attorney and Associate at Kilburn & Strode LLP, London<\/a>. He has been an Examiner in the UK\u2019s Patent Examination Board (PEB) and is currently a Visiting Lecturer for the Postgraduate Certificate in Intellectual Property<\/a>.<\/p>\n Marco obtained a PhD in mechanical engineering from Imperial College London, after a first degree also in mechanical engineering from University of Perugia, Italy. He carried out doctoral and post-doctoral research in the UK while studying and developing a number of multidisciplinary non-destructive evaluation techniques involving ultrasound, thermography and imaging applied to safety-critical structures such as oil refinery pipes, turbine blades and aircraft wings. The results of his research have been presented at various international conferences and disseminated in many scientific journals.<\/p>\n Having gained valuable in-house experience as the head of an in-house IP department in an advanced engineering company, Marco is an all-round engineering attorney with uncompromised commercial focus. He diligently and efficiently implements IP protection programmes tailored to client-specific requirements, defining plans and strategies to achieve measurable success at any stage of the IP chain. Marco regularly undertakes patent work in many technology fields including controls, robotics, hybrid & autonomous drive, powertrains & transmissions, turbomachinery, telematics, digital manufacturing, industry 4.0, battery & electricity operated electrical machines, heating ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems, suspension systems and vehicle safety systems.<\/p>\n An active member of the Italian community in London, Marco regularly promotes IP within the Italian Chamber of Commerce and supports TechItalia:Lab, an accelerator for Italian start-ups in the UK. In 2015, Marco was recognised as a Talented Young Italian operating in the services industry in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Visiting Lecturer 2019-2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":842,"featured_media":5733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-5732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-past-visiting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/842"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5732"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7459,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732\/revisions\/7459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}