Nina Mikander

Head of IP Prosecution, European Trademark and Design Attorney

Services

  1. Intellectual Property

Contact details

I am an intellectual property (IP) specialist and head of our IP prosecution team. I advise clients on all aspects of trademark and design protection, filing strategies, trademark clearance searches and IP portfolio management internationally. I also handle contentious proceedings, oppositions and cancellation actions at the Finnish Patent Office and EUIPO. I have considerable and versatile experience of designs globally, and have been involved in numerous cases of design infringements as a consulting specialist responsible for preparing infringement evaluations. I work for clients across a variety of industry sectors. I lecture on IP related matters as well.

Before joining C&S, I have worked as a head of trademark and designs, team manager and as a head of marketing in firms specialised in IP prosecution as well as with a telecommunications firm overseeing and managing their design portfolio. Before joining a private IP practice I worked several years at the Finnish Patent Office.

I am a European Trademark and Design attorney with the right to represent clients before EUIPO. I am also an authorised Finnish Trademark and Design Attorney.

Latest references

Valio and C&S – Sustainable everyday life is created through bold reforms
Services Competition & Procurement, Data & Technology, Dispute Resolution, Energy, Environment, Infrastructure & Natural Resources, ESG and Corporate Sustainability, Intellectual Property, International Construction & Projects, Mergers & Acquisitions, Real Estate Investments & Transactions
Case published 4.5.2023
SOK – Sale of Hotel Business in St Petersburg
Services Compliance & Risk, Intellectual Property, Mergers & Acquisitions, Wholesale & Retail
Case published 15.7.2022
Valio – Sale of Russian Operations
Services Intellectual Property, Mergers & Acquisitions, Food Industry
Case published 26.4.2022
F-Secure – Proposed separation of F-Secure’s Consumer Security business through a partial demerger
Services Capital Markets & Financial Regulation, Corporate Governance, Corporate Transactions & Structuring, Mergers & Acquisitions, Public M&A, Spin-offs, Divestments and Demergers of Public Companies, Technology & Communications
Case published 17.2.2022
Valio – Global Brand Portfolio Management and IP Enforcement
Services Advertising & Marketing, Intellectual Property, IP Agreements, IP Disputes, IP Protection, Food Industry
Case published 30.9.2020
Anora Group – Global Brand Portfolio Management and IP Enforcement
Services Advertising & Marketing, Intellectual Property, IP Agreements, IP Disputes, IP Protection, Food Industry
Case published 11.5.2020
Sinituote – Protection and Enforcement of Brands and Designs
Services Intellectual Property, IP Disputes, IP Protection
Case published 21.1.2019
Alma Media – Brand Protection and Enforcement
Services Advertising & Marketing, Intellectual Property, IP Disputes, IP Protection, Media & Entertainment
Case published 18.1.2019
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