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Industrial Property Rights

Industrial property rights are exlusive rights to protect inventions, marks used as symbols for goods and services, and for example the appearance of a product. The industrial property rights include among other things patents, utility models, trademarks, designs, business names and other uncommonly used forms of protection, such as topographies of integrated circuits and the plant breeder's right.

Basic information of the most useful industrial property rights can be found for example on the web pages of The Finnish Patent and Trademark Office. For more information, click the links below.

Patents

Utility Models

Designs

Trademarks
Patents Act

General Provisions
Section 1 (30.6.2000/650) Anyone who has made an invention which is susceptible of industrial application, or his successor in title, shall be entitled, on application, to a patent and thereby to the exclusive right to exploit the invention commercially, in accordance with this Act.

The following, as such, shall not be regarded as inventions:
(1) discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods;
(2) aesthetic creations:
(3) schemes, rules and methods for performing mental acts, ...

To choose the correct type of protection is not an easy task in many cases. We can give you more information and help in all the matters related to the industrial property rights. Please, do not hesitate to contact us with a telephone, mail or e-mail. You are also heartily welcome to visit us!