
M. Sc. M. Sc. Kai D. Klein
Patent Attorney, European Patent, Trademark and Design Attorney
Profile
Experience
• Active in industrial property since 2015
• Professional experience in construction and R&D in the fields of tools and plant engineering in Germany and the USA.
Qualification
• Studied mechanical engineering with a focus on applied mechanics and construction and automation technology at the Ruhr University Bochum; Master's thesis in the field of plasticity under dynamic loads, awarded with the Multiphase Technology Award 2014.
• Further Master's degree in Sales Engineering & Product Management at the Ruhr University Bochum.
Technical specialties
• General mechanical engineering
• Toolmaking
• Plant construction
• Automotive technology
• Process engineering
Legal fields
• National and international patent application and examination procedures
• Opposition and appeal proceedings
• Freedom-to-operate analysis
• Injury reports, legal resistance reports
• National designs and international designs
• Trademark law
• Employee invention law
Patent law activities
• German patent law
• European patent law
• Chinese patent law
Languages
• German
• English
Courses/Publications/Lectures
• In-house training on Chinese patent law
• Inventor advice at the Information Centre for Technology and Patents (ITP), TU-Dortmund; Advising start-ups and founders on intellectual property
Memberships
VDI, EPI, German Patent Attorneys' Association
Interests
• Endurance sports
• Tennis, Badminton
• Travel and political events