Ossi Huhtanen

Ossi Huhtanen helps Kolster’s clients effectively protect their inventions and build sustainable IPR strategies that support their business goals.

Ossi has extensive experience as a patent attorney and deep expertise in a variety of electrical and mechanical engineering applications. His work spans IP searches and opinions, protection processes, as well as opposition and infringement matters.

A key part of Ossi’s role also involves developing clients’ internal IPR processes, including strategies, policies, and training programs. He shares his expertise by lecturing on international patent practices.

According to Ossi, IPR should not be viewed as a set of isolated actions but as an integral part of the overall business. Before deciding which IPR measures to take, it is essential to clarify what the business aims to achieve. This ensures that the chosen actions genuinely and sustainably support the company’s objectives.

IP expertise

• IP PROTECTION: Counselling: protection alternatives, courses of action, optimisation; technology protection: patents and utility models; handling of application process in Finland and internationally: official actions, responses; oppositions to registrations and patents claimed by competitors
• IP STRATEGY: IP expert opinions for financiers; IPR Due Diligence in corporate acquisitions; IPR audits and recommendations for actions; cost optimisation and forecasting; annual IP maintenance: evaluation, optimisation
• Searches and assessment of the possibilities for protection: Novelty searches, patentability assessment; technology investigation, assessing the level of technology
• IP risk management: Verification of the freedom to operate; competitor monitoring: protections, protection activity: oppositions, appeals, annulments; infringement statements and scope of protection analyses
• DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND LEGAL PROCEEDINGS: court proceedings in disputes (infringements, injunction and annulment actions)
• EMPLOYEE INVENTIONS: Consulting, statements, codes of practice for employee inventions
• IP TRAINING: IP seminars; tailored corporate training

Technical expertise

• Paper machinery
• Construction engineering
• Environmental technology
• Transport and traffic
• HPAC
• Industrial automation
• Automatic control engineering
• Sensor and electrical measurement engineering
• Power electronics
• Electronics
• Opto-electronics
• Lighting technology

Client industries

• Automotive
• Consumer goods
• Energy
• Paper and forest industry
• Public services
• Freight and logistics
• Healthcare
• High tech
• Industrial equipment
• Pharmaceuticals & medical products
• Electric measurement technology
• Utilities / cleantech

IPR sector memberships

• epi – Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office
• SPAY – The Association of Finnish Patent Attorneys
• FICPI – International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys, Executive Committee Delegate for Finland