Kati Leinonen

Kati Leinonen is an experienced patent professional who has been working on invention evaluation, patenting and licensing for ten years. Kati joined Kolster as a patent attorney in September 2018 after serving as a Senior IP Specialist with Nokia’s Patent Unit, where she specialised in managing the company's patent portfolio, supporting and growing the patent licensing business, and the quality control of new patent applications. She spent the early years of her career in the product development of mobile phone operating systems. Since 2008, she has worked in various IP roles, as both a patent engineer and IP specialist. In addition, she has experience of working as a patent engineer for the gaming company, Rovio.

Kati has broad-ranging expertise in patenting, from identifying inventions and managing the patenting process to the defence and licensing of patents. She has plenty of experience in cooperating with licensing and litigation attorneys, which has provided Kati with a valuable perspective on the drafting of patent applications and assessing what kinds of patents provide a good basis for pursuing a licensing business.

IP expertise

• Patenting process from drafting the patent application to its granting and opposition matters
• Patent licensing
• Patent protection of software-based inventions
• Identification and evaluation of inventions, novelty searches & patentability assessment
• Freedom to operate surveys
• Expert opinions on the scope of protection of patents
• IP risk management, patent infringement evaluations

Technical expertise

• Electronics
• Software engineering
• Embedded systems
• User interfaces
• Mobile solutions, terminal devices
• Screen technologies
• Online games
• Virtual reality and augmented reality
• IoT and new product and service ideas, cloud-based solutions
• Medical data processing and the related hardware

Client industries

• Automotive
• Communications and media
• Consumer goods
• Financial services
• ICT
• Media and entertainment
• High tech
• Industrial equipment
• Software
• Telecommunications

IPR sector memberships

• epi – Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office
• Finnish Association for Corporate Patent Agents