Ms. Sini-Maaria Mikkilä
Boco IP Oy Ab
c/o Innovation Home Tampere
Finlaysoninkuja 21 A
33210 Tampere
Finland
I am an experienced European Patent Attorney who has been helping clients protect and defend their inventions since 2008. My expertise lies particularly in industrial machinery and equipment, automation, hydraulics, measurement technology, and energy solutions. I assist clients in all IP matters – from patenting strategies to opposition and infringement cases, as well as employee invention matters. I especially enjoy analyzing technical solutions, assessing the scope of protection, conducting technology landscape studies, and preparing expert opinions. I am also passionate about increasing IP awareness and regularly organize IP trainings and workshops.
In addition to my work as a patent attorney, I serve as Chief Strategy Officer at Boco IP, where I focus on developing processes and practices to better meet client needs. I am also a board member and membership coordinator of the Finnish Association for Patent Attorneys (SPAY) since 2023, and I represent Finland as an alternate delegate in FICPI. Furthermore, I actively contribute to FICPI’s Practice Management Committee (PMC) and CET3 International Patent Matters Committee. Based in our Tampere office, I support clients across Finland and internationally in Finnish, English, and Swedish.
My work spans a wide range of industries, including industrial manufacturing, health technology, renewable energy, and logistics. However, I am happy to assist with any IP-related matters – feel free to reach out.
Experience & Qualifications
- Automotive, marine and aerospace engineering
- Energy; power generation, storage and transmission; renewable energy
- Manufacturing methods and product handling
- Mechanical, electro-mechanical and mechatronic engineering
- Patent drafting
- Patent interferences, inter partes and ex parte reviews
- Patent oppositions
- Patent prosecution
Roles in FICPI
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CET 3 International Patent Matters
CET Group 3 focuses on developments of the international patent system and provides guidance to its users.
Such developments can relate to both substantive and procedural aspects of patent law, and CET3 follows them across jurisdictions.
CET3 identifies issues that deserve study, conducts the studies and provides guidance through various outputs available to the users of the patent system such as Guidelines, Position papers, and Resolutions. CET3 actively contributes to forging and advocating the position of FICPI in discussions on patent law harmonisation in key study and discussion groups such as the Group B+ and at the forums established by WIPO.
CET3 also monitors and studies international agreements and conventions relating to patents, follows the developments of the PCT system and, where necessary, provides comments to WIPO and relevant authorities for defending a well-balanced international patent system.
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