Sakari Arvela is an authorized Finnish and European Patent Attorney with background in medical technology, (micro)electronics, optics, forest industry and consumer devices. Besides doing patent drafting, prosecution and opposition work since 2004, he worked as the deputy managing director at Laine IP, Finland, in 2010-2012 and has run his own consultative business. He has also trained EQE candidates at CEIPI courses. In 2018, Sakari co-founded IPRally Technologies Oy (www.iprally.com), a patent AI company utilizing Graph Neural Networks and other Machine Learning technologies to help IP and R&D professionals to find, understand and analyse patent information.