Simone Kling

Senior Associate
French Spanish English German

Background

Simone started her career in IP in 1996 in an IP Firm in Paris. After 5 years, she joined another firm where she became Partner and for which she started the Munich Office in 2008.

In 2016, she joins Arkema France, where she also gains experience in due diligence, contracts and transactions. After 8 years as in house counsel, she joins Regimbeau in 2024.

Simone has a particular expertise in the field of Material Science, and a long practice of oppositions and appeals before the EPO. She is epi Counsel Member.

Qualifications

  • French Patent Attorney
  • European Patent Attorney
  • Representative before the UPC

Education

  • PhD in Material Science (Montpellier University , France)
  • Chemistry Diploma (Technical University of Berlin)

Know-how

  • IP Audit
  • Acquisition of IP Rights & Strategy
  • IP Prosecution & Portfolio Management
  • Pre-litigation & Litigation
  • Negociation
  • Freedom to operate

Teaching / Representative positions

  • Speaker at CEIPI (raising awareness of the European Qualifying Examination, introduction to the oral procedure) from 2007 to 2010

Hobbies

  • Simone loves music and relaxes at the piano. She also grows fruit and vegetables in her garden in Touraine.