This role has mainly been about coordinating and managing new inventions at Nordic Semiconductor ASA and in the subsidiaries. Including invention handling, patent application drafting management, filing, prosecution, and maintenance activities. The whole lifecycle of the invention including all formal paperwork and interaction with all possible stakeholders. Defining the processes, practices, and tools needed to make this happen and supporting the R&D to succeed.

(1.4.2018 – 31.3.2023) Sideline experts are appointed by the Government of Finland for a four-year term. Sideline expert members (Technically Qualified Judge) must have completed an appropriate university degree. In addition, an expert member must be involved in competition, control and procurement matters is required to be familiar with competition law, procurement, energy markets, economics, marketing, business or economics. A sideline expert member is involved in intellectual property matters, on the other hand, is required to be familiar with relevant technology or patenting issues, marketing, economics, business or art. In turn, a sideline expert member has become familiar due own profession with consumer protection, marketing, business or financial issues.

Dispelix develops see-through waveguides, that are used as transparent displays in extended reality devices. They optically combine the real and virtual worlds in the user's field of vision. My task was to support the R&D and develop internal practices for in-house innovation handling, patenting, patent management, and evaluation of 3rd party patents.

Taking care of F-Secure Oulu office move.

As an IPR manager I am responsible for trademark, domain name and patent management, patent and trademark related processes, invention handling, patent review board meetings, patent and trademark filings, patent and trademark oppositions, 3rd party patent studies, patent risk management and mitigation, IPR training, assertions and patent litigation. Anything that relates to Intellectual Property Rights.I am also an inventor of following patents; - Web Access Control by Alternate DNS Root Reputation (US8499077, GB2481356)- Protecting a user from a compromised web resource (US9231971, GB2505529)- Data synchronisation (US9021136, GB2515705A)- Data storage management (US9424433)