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Find out moreWe are excited to share the latest edition of the Law Update, beautifully and appropriately titled “Sustainable Horizons: The Saudi Arabian Vision.” Giving special honor to the Kingdom’s 2030 vision, this update focuses on a collection of both informative and inspiring articles.
For those in construction, you can learn about how the tendering environment impacts risk-pricing for contractors, the updates on the legal framework of the construction industry and how contractors can protect themselves against financial difficulties.
There is good news too from the kingdom’s banking sector, from which the practice of “Open Banking” is being pushed for! But what is open banking? We’re answering that too.
Also . . . Are there any women trail blazers in Saudi Arabia you can name? We’ll help you with that. We cover how the Middle East has been making strides in empowering women in the entrepreneurial space,most notably in STEM fields.
Read the full editionFederico Simone is an intellectual property attorney. His practice focuses primarily on the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the chemical, biochemical, pharmaceutical, and biotechnological arts.
He has experience counseling clients, preparing, and prosecuting patents. He also provides technical assistance for non-infringement and validity opinions, and for due diligence evaluations.
He specializes in the preparation and prosecution of patent applications involving pharmaceuticals, biotechnologies, such as gene therapy, RNAi and CRISPR technology, therapeutic biomolecules, such as monoclonal antibodies and engineered peptides, stem cell therapy, chemical engineering, vaccine technology, such as peptide vaccines and DNA and RNA vaccines, medical devices, nanotechnology, cosmetics, natural products, personal hygiene products, fuel cells, microscopy, medical diagnostics, such as microRNAs, immunoassays and biotech arrays, microbial technologies, and synthetic biology.
Federico has significant patent experience in private practice, including practice with Evan Law Group. He has also published articles in peer reviewed scientific journals including Blood, PNAS, Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Biochemical Pharmacology.
Admitted to practice law in Illinois
Registered Patent Attorney before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
2011 – Juris Doctor – J.D. – Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, USA
1992 – Master of Science – M.S. – (Biochemistry and Life Sciences) – University of Trieste, Italy
2011 – Attorney – Illinois State Bar
2012 – Patent Attorney – United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
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