Mike Biagio is a principal of IP Guardian and has had previous experience in research and development and project engineering before becoming a patent attorney. Mike has been involved in specialist intellectual property law since 2001 in a variety of countries including South Africa, New Zealand and Australia, and has more than 21 years of experience as a patent attorney in obtaining patents and designs around the world for his clients.
Mike has been a lecturer and regular mentor at UNSW, University of Wollongong, and University of Sydney for a number of years, and has advised start-ups at incubators/accelerators on intellectual property and ideation.
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Background
Mike has a background in mechanical engineering although he has also specialised in software patents. Patent applications that Mike has drafted include the following technologies:
- packaging;
- consumer products;
- mining and mining related;
- mechanical devices;
- robotics and electromechanical mechanisms;
- fintech;
- industrial processes;
- naval/marine;
- medical devices;
- defence and weapons systems;
- and many more.
Qualifications
Mike was also previously involved in IP Valuation, which gave him an eye for understanding the commercial aspects of intellectual property.
Mike has a wife and three teenage children, who love him despite him being “deadly boring and stuck in the eighties”.
Qualifications:
- Registered Australian Patent Attorney
- Registered New Zealand Patent Attorney
- Qualified South African Patent Attorney (not practising)
- Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (UCT)
- Bachelor of Laws (UNISA)
- Attorney of the High Court of South Africa (not practising)
