Domenico Golzio

Domenico spent 33 years at the European Patent Office (EPO) in Munich and in The Hague, first as an examiner in electronic circuits and telecoms, then as a director responsible for the examination and grant of European patents in the field of electric motors and power electronics and, in the last 12 years, as director of the IT department in charge for the development patent search tools and information systems for patent examiners and general public. He also  set up the Data Science team developing Artificial Intelligence tools for patent classification, prior art search and substantive examination. 

  

He graduated in Physics at the University of Turin, and prior to joining the EPO in 1990, he worked 11 years in car, telecom and aerospace industries entrusted with research, engineering and management responsibilities pertaining to aircraft fibre optic and data bus research, design of electric/magnetic sensors for EMC, EMI, EMP  and Radiation Hazard, design of wideband fibre optic link for measuring EM fields generated by ESD on satellite thermal blankets, design of guidelines for EM hardened electronic circuits, development of OpAmp macromodels  to be used in EMC simulation and design of OpAmps having low EM susceptibility. 

 

During his time at the EPO, he also served as Liaison Officer in The Hague coordinating the International Cooperation Activities organizing training for examiners and managers from Intellectual Property Offices. He set up examiner  training in The Hague heralding a new combined approach to search and examination, designed the first prototype of the EPO IP Teaching kit and, on behalf of the European Patent Academy, delivered presentations and lectures at various Universities, LLM courses and in international events on IPR related matters.  

 

He has been the EPO delegate in the Committee on WIPO Standards (CWS) and in the EUIPO Working Group on Emerging Technologies. In addition he carried out research into various aspects of IPRs, including the relationship between patents and innovation, patent information, international patent portfolios, and comparison between different patent systems.