Michael Limb
Associate
Europe
Manchester
Michael joined Marks & Clerk in September 2018 as a trainee patent attorney in the Manchester office. He graduated with a first class master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Newcastle University in 2017.
Michael’s final year project was aimed at the development of a method and design to allow foot orthotics manufactured using fused deposition modelling (FDM) to be functionally similar to foot orthotics manufactured via selective laser sintering (SLS).
Outside of work, Michael enjoys watching or participating in a variety of sports and cooking.
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