Jere Kekkonen
"Recognize the value of your invention and protect it in time – with expert help, you’ll save time, effort, and unnecessary costs."
Jere Kekkonen helps Kolster’s clients identify the protectable features of various technical solutions and supports them throughout every stage of the protection process.
He is familiar with the entire patenting lifecycle from identifying inventions to defending granted patents. Jere also has experience in conducting novelty and freedom-to-operate searches, restoring lapsed rights, and evaluating and addressing patent infringements.
With an exceptionally broad interdisciplinary background in health technology, measurement science, and optoelectronics, Jere is well equipped to protect a wide range of inventions. He has worked in academia as a postdoctoral researcher and in industry as a senior product development expert and IPR lead at a deep tech company. He has hands-on experience in developing IPR strategies that support the competitive edge of growing technology businesses.
Jere believes that effective identification and protection of inventions is a critical part of building sustainable business. It plays a key role in creating and reinforcing competitive advantage.
IP-expertise
- The patenting process from drafting the application to grant and opposition proceedings
- Evaluation of inventions and novelty searches
- Freedom-to-operate analyses
- Expert opinions on the scope of patent protection
- Patent infringement assessments
- IPR strategy and consulting
- Restoration of rights
Technical Expertise
- Measurement technology
- Electronics
- Optoelectronics
- Health technology
Client Industries
- Measuring instruments and technology
- Industrial machinery and equipment
- Industrial process control
- Automation technology
- Quantum computers and quantum computing
- Electronics
- Optoelectronics
- Health technology
- Work machinery
- Electrified vehicles and work machines