Eero Sikow

Senior Associate, Helsinki

Digitalization & TMT, Intellectual Property, Dispute Resolution, Marketing & Consumer

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Eero Sikow is a Helsinki-based Senior Associate specialized in intellectual property, dispute resolution and technology-related assignments. Eero also regularly advices clients in various sector-specific regulatory matters with a particular focus on the pharmaceutical sector.

Eero handles a broad range of contentious and non-contentious IP matters. He has extensive experience of domestic and international IP disputes, including proceedings before Finnish courts, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and the Unified Patent Court (UPC), as well as administrative bodies. The proceedings have related to various intellectual property rights but also contractual issues and involved questions such as preliminary injunctions, infringing acts, invalidity claims and damages claims. Eero has also extensive knowledge of the regulation relating to supplementary protection certificates (SPC) for pharmaceutical products. Apart from dispute resolution work, Eero also has experience in non-contentious matters such various types of regulatory questions with a particular focus on the pharmaceutical industries. Additionally, he advises clients on various aspects of marketing and consumer law.

Work highlights

Eero Sikow’s experience includes advising:

• A global pharmaceutical company in proceedings related to supplementary protection certificates before the Market Court of Finland and Court of Justice of the European Union;
• Several innovative pharma companies in IP litigation proceedings before Finnish civil courts;
• Clients in regulatory appeals against the Pharmaceutical Pricing Board’s decisions on the reimbursement status and pricing of products

Career

Roschier (2020-)

Memberships

Member of the Finnish Bar Association

Member of AIPPI

Member of the Finnish Association for Industrial Property Rights (STY)

Member of the Finnish IT Law Association

Professional appointments

Secretary of AIPPI Finland

Member of AIPPI Pharma Standing Committee

Education

University of Helsinki, LL.M. (2020)

Hanken School of Economics, M. Sc (Econ), Intellectual Property Law (2023)

Languages

English, Finnish, French