Organization and executive group

Kathrine Myhre is Director General for the Norwegian Industrial Property Office (NIPO). Together with six department directors they make up the executive group..

NIPO's executive group

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    Kathrine Myhre

    Director General Norwegian Industrial Property Office (NIPO)

    Kathrine Myhre has extensive experience in innovation, business and export strategy, and the establishment and scaling of companies.

    Kathrine holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Reading (UK) and the University of Oslo (UiO). During her studies, she was an active student politician with a strong interest in innovation, and she made her mark as President of the Student Parliament at UiO in 1993.

    She began her professional career at the University of Oslo, where she worked with intellectual property rights (IPR), building an innovation culture and creating businesses based on new university research. She was one of the initiators behind Birkeland Innovasjon in 2004 (now Inven2, the university’s technology transfer office, TTO), where she served as Director of Innovation for several years. Later, she became Director of Innovation at the research and business park IT Fornebu.

    In 2009, she founded the health cluster Norway Health Tech as a non-profit member organization, focusing on innovation, business development, and international scaling of health companies. In 2015, Norway Health Tech was awarded Norwegian Centre of Expertise (NCE) status through Innovation Norway’s cluster program.

    Kathrine assumed the position of Director General of the Norwegian Industrial Property Office (Patentstyret) on 1 January 2021. She also serves as Deputy Chair of the Board of the Export Strategy Council (Eksportstrategirådet).

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    Bjørn Lillekjendlie

    Director Patent

    Phone number

    		+47 99 00 00 98

    E-mail

    		bli@patentstyret.no
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    Bernt Boldvik

    Director Design and Trademark

    Phone number

    		+47 90 53 53 34

    E-mail

    		bbo@patentstyret.no
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    Otto Scharff

    Director Digital Services, Acting Director Business Management (Finance)

    Phone number

    		+47 99 29 80 19

    E-mail

    		osc@patentstyret.no
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    Jostein Sandvik

    Director Legal and International

    Phone number

    		+47 45 00 05 41

    E-mail

    		jsa@patentstyret.no
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    Elisabet Mæland Fosse

    Director Market and Communications, Acting Director Business Management (Records Management and HR)

    Phone number

    		+47 90 88 11 73

    E-mail

    		emf@patentstyret.no