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 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