Johanna Flythström

Johanna Flythström has more than 20 years of experience in intellectual property in private practice and in-house roles. Her experience spans the innovation and patent lifecycle from invention capture, filing, and prosecution through R&D arrangements, licensing, commercialization, and transactions to enforcement, litigation, arbitration, mediation, and other forms of dispute resolution. Ms Flythström acts as counsel in patent and technology disputes before national courts, the Unified Patent Court, and arbitral tribunals. Her work includes, i.a., multi-jurisdictional patent litigation and licensing disputes, including global coordination across jurisdictions as well as matters involving SEP/FRAND. She has extensive experience in R&D, licensing (incl. SEP and other patent licensing), commercialization, and other arrangements involving intellectual property and technology. She advises on patents, trade secrets, copyright, designs, trademarks, software, and data. Her sector experience spans a broad spectrum of technologies from information and communications technology, electronics, software, and quantum to life sciences, pharmaceuticals, medical technology, chemistry and process technologies, consumer products, and industrial technologies. Ms Flythström holds an LL.B. and an LL.M. from the University of Helsinki and an LL.M. from the University of California, Berkeley. She also holds a Master of Science in Technology from the Helsinki University of Technology, now Aalto University, with a specialization in electronics and communications engineering. She is a Finnish attorney-at-law, an authorized Finnish patent attorney, a member of the State Bar of California, and a CEDR-accredited mediator. She has served on the Finnish Bar Association’s Mediation Expert Committee and has trained mediators. Ms Flythström also serves as a member of the Reporter General Team of AIPPI, where she contributes to the study and development of intellectual property law across IP rights, industries, and jurisdictions. Ms Flythström is recognized, i.a., by Chambers Europe, Chambers Global, IAM Patent 1000, IP Stars, Legal 500, WTR 1000, and Lexology Index as well as in the World IP Review’s Influential Women in IP and Managing IP's Top 250 Women in IP. Ms Flythström is a Partner and firm-wide Head of Intellectual Property at Roschier and co-heads Roschier's Emerging Companies practice. She previously served as Roschier’s country managing partner for Finland as Roschier's Head of Helsinki Office.