Bio

Niklas Ostman is a Helsinki-based Partner specialized in technology and IP transactions and litigation. He has exceptionally broad experience from global IP and technology commercialization projects, gained both at Roschier as well as in in-house roles in both Europe and the USA. He he has played a key role in creating and operating two IP monetization programs that rank among the largest in the world. In such capacity, he has negotiated complex IP and technology transactions with virtually all major technology and IP companies in the United States, Europe, China, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan. Niklas has also been extensively involved in hundreds of patent lawsuits across the UK, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Norway, the USA (TX, VA, CA, WI, DE and US ITC), South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Kenya as well as in China (Beijing and Shanghai). He has also acted as a trial counsel in patent cases in Finland, obtaining several landmark decisions on issues such as the doctrine of equivalence (non-literal infringement), availability of preliminary injunctions and patents for biochemical synthesis routes. On the technology side, he has broad experience from both the cellular (handsets & infrastructure) and the software (application, on-premise and cloud) industries gained during the years spent in prominent in-house roles in said industries. Prior to rejoining Roschier Niklas was General Manager of IP Licensing at Microsoft Corporation in the USA, and before that Head of Patent Licensing at Nokia Corporation. Previously, he has also worked as a Visiting Lawyer at Quinn Emanuel’s Los Angeles office.