Director, principal directorate Patent Knowledge at European Patent Office
Enrico Luzzatto studied chemistry at the Rome University “La Sapienza” obtaining his degree (“Laurea”) with honours in 1985.
In 1986, he joined the R&D department of an Italian company producing human diagnostics and the EPO in 1989 as an examiner. In 1998, he passed the European Qualifying Examination.
Enrico became director in February 2010 in the cluster "Pure and Applied Organic Chemistry", and was also active in the training of EPO examiners, in particular on opposition-related tasks, and has given lectures on biotechnology and chemical patenting issues as well as on procedural matters at a number of conferences and seminars.
In January 2018, he joined the European Patent Academy as Senior Advisor and as of January 2020 works in the principal directorate Patent Knowledge, in the directorate Patent Knowledge Promotion, PATLIB.