Natalya Hartmann

Natalya Hartmann, one of Akona IP’s founders, is passionate about all aspects of her work, but especially enjoys working closely with the engineers and/or the in-house counsel in finding creative solutions for the individual needs of her clients.

As a qualified European patent attorney and a U.S. patent agent, Natalya combines her engineering understanding with the legal knowledge of the European and the U.S. patent systems to provide the optimal protection for each invention in view of the business and the strategy of each client. In addition to patent preparation and prosecution work before the U.S. and European Patent offices, Natalya has extensive experience in litigation in the Netherlands as well as in assessing validity, infringement, and freedom to operate.

Natalya has experience working with a wide variety of technical fields such as semiconductor manufacturing, semiconductor device packaging, materials science, photonics, optics, lasers, quantum computing, sensors, analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuits, phased arrays, signals processing, 5G and beyond wireless communications, computer memory and storage technologies, computer graphics and media, electro-optic displays, medical imaging systems, internet of things, and cryptography.