Professor Simone Rose is an award-winning professor and active scholar who writes and publishes in the area of intellectual property (IP). Her scholarship explores whether the current incentive-centered framework of IP law meets the constitutional mandate to "promote progress" and effectuates the proper balance between incentivizing innovation and providing the appropriate degree of public access. Her current scholarship explores using generative AI to evaluate whether an invention has in fact earned the patent right or should remain as a building block within the public domain. She recently published "The Non-Obvious Razor and Generative AI" (co-authored with Professor Raina Haque) in the North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology (2024).

Professor Rose approaches her work through a multidisciplinary lens. At Wake Forest Law, she served as the inaugural associate dean for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (2016-2019) and for Intellectual Property and Innovation (2019-2021). In those roles, she created multidisciplinary platforms between Wake Forest's College, Medical School, Business School, and Law School. She also developed a multidisciplinary licensing course (a collaboration between Wake Forest Law, Technology and Licensing, and Wake Forest's Medical School) and worked closely with the Business School to integrate law students into a capstone graduate consulting project. Professor Rose also actively forged relationships within the Innovation Quarter. She partnered with numerous academic and professional constituencies to develop a White Paper proposal for The Innovation Hub ("I-Hub"), a human-centered design thinking program that would enable students, faculty, and outside professionals from a wide-range of disciplines to work on projects and develop policy structures that enhance innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship.

Professor Rose is active in state bar and local community organizations and is a member of the Forsyth County Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (2016-present), member of the North Carolina Bar Association Future of Law Committee (2017-present), and serves as a co-chair for the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Innovation Hub Project (2018-present).

Professor Rose came to Wake Forest Law in 1993. She was awarded the Joseph Branch Award for Excellence in Law Teaching (2005). Prior to teaching, she was an associate attorney at Foley & Lardner LLP in Washington, DC. As a registered patent attorney, she assisted clients in both the acquisition and enforcement of patent, trademark, and other intellectual property rights. She received her JD from the University of Maryland School of Law and her Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.