Industrial production of acetic acid: a patent landscape

Massimo Barbieri – Technology Transfer manager at Politecnico di Milano since September 2003. His job deals mainly with the evaluation of the inventions’ proposals, state-of-the-art searches and patent licensing.
In 1993 he received a master’s degree in chemistry, University of Pavia, and in 2003 a post-graduate degree in Industrial Property Management. He is a Qualified Patent Information Professional (https://www.qpip.org/qpips/190) since 2019.

Flavio Manenti – Full Professor of Chemical Plants at Politecnico di Milano where he coordinates the Centre for Sustainable Process Engineering Research (hiips://super.chem.polimi.it). Charity Trustee-elected at European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE, www efce.info) and President-elect of the Computer-Aided Process Engineering (CAPE, www wp-cape.eu). Active in clean technologies, sustainability and digitalization, he published 300+ papers and 12 books and filed 20+ patents.