Sakari Värilä
VP of Customer Success, European Patent Attorney
Partner M.Sc. (Tech.)
Sakari is an experienced and widely recognized IP expert. His career as an attorney spans many years and he also has work experience related to R&D processes in industry. Sakari understands the commercial starting points of start-ups as well as the business objectives of global enterprises and the significance of IP in both types of scenarios. He helps pinpoint innovations and has the ability to proportion IP processes to organizations’ different business models. His expertise also includes the tasks of an outsourced patent engineer and external patent panelist.
Sakari also appears as a professional expert witness and issues statements concerning patent technology in legal proceedings. Sakari identifies the most relevant issues in each case and offers flexible and tailored expert knowledge to support the successful achievement of goals.
He is a member of domestic and international organizations and was on the Board of the Association of Finnish Patent Attorneys for several years.
KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGES:
English, Finnish, German, French
IP PROFESSIONAL SINCE:
2002
Speciality
Telecommunications, software technology, signal processing, physics, mechanics, disputes, litigation, IP studies and strategies, dispute resolution
Services
#Infringement analysis #Technology sales and licensing #IP strategy #Novelty searches #Freedom to operate analysis (FTO) #IP Due Diligence #IP Infringements #Patenting the invention #Invention hunt #Patent monitoring #BERGGREN PATENTS