Cecilia Håkansson

Cecilia has extensive experience from working as a Patent Information Manager within a patent department in the home appliance industry as well as a Patent Examiner at the Swedish Patent Office. At the Swedish Patent Office, she primarily examined applications within the fields of electronics, semiconductor technology and measure physics.

Cecilia has a Ph.D. in physics from Lund University and did a Post Doc at the Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Elettra in Trieste, Italy. Before she entered the patent field, she worked as a Process Engineer within the semiconductor industry, and as a Research and Development Engineer and Project Manager within Tele/Datacom and Electronics industry.

Cecilia is a Qualified Patent Information Professional and a member of SIPF.

• Patent Information Manager, AB Electrolux, 2014-2022
• Patent Engineer/examiner, PRV- Swedish Patent and Registration Office, 2007-2014
• Project manager NPI projects, Sanmina SCI, 2005-2006
• Engineer, Nilsson Materials AB, 2004-2005
• Electronic Design, Optillion AB, 2001-2003
• ASIC-designer, Ericsson utvecklings AB, 2001-1999
• Process engineer, Mitel Semiconductors, 1997-1999
• Post Doc-NFR fellowship, Elettra, 1996-1997

• Ph.D., Synchrotron Radiation, Lund University, 1996
• BA, Physics, Lund University, 1990

• SIPF (Association of IP Professionals in Swedish Industry)