John Kolakowski of Nokia Technologies is an intellectual property counsel and business advisor with over 13 years of in-house worldwide telecommunications patent licensing, litigation, and policy experience at Nokia and 10 years of prior private practice district court and ITC patent litigation experience at Morrison & Foerster LLP. Mr. Kolakowski has successfully negotiated inbound/outbound patent and technology licenses at Nokia, the monetization of a patent portfolio with tens of thousands of individual assets, and patent divestments netting significant returns. He has also helped lead teams in offensive and defensive IP litigation in prior positions at the company, but is currently focused on new efforts within Nokia to license in the multimedia space. John also advocates for Nokia interests before government regulatory authorities and lawmakers, standards development organizations, trade associations, and other groups addressing IPR and patent policies. Interested in contributing to best practices in the IP licensing field, John is a member of the Board of Directors for the LES Standards Development Organization that is working to create consensus-based procedural standards relating to the use, development and licensing of intellectual capital that could be employed at all stages of a business lifecycle. He also serves on the Advisory Board for the Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy at the George Mason University Antonin Scalia School of Law in Arlington, Virginia. He is USPTO-barred and a former federal judicial clerk, with a J.D. from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan.
