Gregor Knöner

He has proven expertise in the fields of employee inventions and IP related transactions.

By building up an IP portfolio for a corporate unit of Siemens AG in an international setup, he has gained comprehensive practical experience in IP strategy and portfolio management.

Technical focus areas:

• Computer implemented inventions (software, AI), e.g. medical informatics; implementation of artificial neural networks (ANNs); mobile communications
• Electrical and mechanical engineering, including power transformation, wind turbine aerodynamics, control schemes and hardware controllers
• Hands on experience as a physicist in the fields of laser physics and optics, including respective measurement technology

Education and professional career:

• Studies of Physics at Stuttgart University
• Ph.D. at the University of Queensland, Australia; supported by research scholarship; technical field of laser microscopy
• Guest researcher at Harvard University and UCSD, San Diego
• Patent attorney training, with training stages at the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA), the German Patent Court (Bundespatentgericht) and District Court of Mannheim (litigation) 
• Admitted as German patent attorney and European patent attorney in 2010
• Practiced as patent attorney in a well-renowned Munich patent law firm
• Senior IP counsel at Siemens AG, Munich; responsible for corporate unit
• Partner at Kahler Käck Mollekopf - KKM
• Since 2024 member of the board of the German Chamber of Patent Attorneys

Dr. Knöner loves to spend his spare time with his family. He is a water sports enthusiast and likes to climb a surfboard during his holidays and skiing in winter.

Publications and Awards

Educational Scholarship, International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), USA (Apr. 2006)

G. Knöner, S. Parkin, T. A. Nieminen, N. R. Heckenberg, and H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Measurement of refractive index of single microparticles, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 157402 (2006).

G. Knöner, K. Reimann, R. Röwer, U. Södervall, and H.-E. Schaefer, Enhanced Oxygen diffusivity in interfaces of nanocrystalline ZrO₂∙Y₂O₃, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS) 100(7), 3870-3873 (2003).