Minna Seppänen

Minna Seppänen helps Kolster’s clients achieve their business goals through IPR across various industries.

Minna specializes particularly in patent protection for chemical industry processes and telecommunications applications. She has deep expertise in drafting and prosecuting patent applications, covering many sectors such as oil refining, water treatment, and metallurgy. In the ICT sector, Minna is familiar with areas including web services, software-based solutions, as well as mobile and wireless network technologies. She has handled patent applications in IT, chemistry, and bioinformatics fields and has conducted prior art searches related to patenting. Minna joined Kolster as a patent attorney in 2001.

According to Minna, an IPR strategy is beneficial regardless of a company’s industry or size. A well-designed IPR strategy protects the company’s competitive advantage and supports its business objectives.

IP expertise

• The patenting process from drafting the application to granted patents and oppositions
• Protection of technology: patents and utility models
• Application process management in Finland and internationally, including office actions and responses
• Reinstatement of rights
• Freedom-to-operate (FTO) analyses
• Advisory services: protection options, strategies, and optimization
• IPR consulting

Technical expertise

• Chemical engineering, polymer technology, industrial chemistry
• Process and materials engineering
• Telecommunications
• Mobile services
• Information technology
• Bioinformatics

Client industries

• Chemistry
• Natural sciences
• Oil and gas
• Pulp and paper industry
• Healthcare
• Natural resources
• Renewable energy
• Biotechnology
• ICT
• Information and communications
• Software

IPR sector memberships

• epi – Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office
• SPAY – The Association of Finnish Patent Attorneys