Finnish Trademark Registration Process

Finland Profile

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country located in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden, North Norway to the west, Russia to the east, and Estonia to the south of the Gulf of Finland. Politically, it is a parliamentary republic with a central government in the capital, Helsinki, and local governments in the 336 autonomous districts and the Åland archipelago. Finland was part of Sweden from the twelfth to the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Finnish Intellectual Property Legal System

• "Patent Law"
• Copyright Act
• "trademark law"
• The Design Protection Act
• "Utility Model Law"

International Organization/Agreement

• Singapore Trademark Law Treaty
• Trademark Law Treaty
• Hague Agreement on the International Deposit of Industrial Designs
• WIPO Copyright Treaty
• WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty
• Patent Law Treaty
• Protocol Concerning the Madrid Agreement for the International Registration of Marks Budapest International Recognition Treaty as a Depositary Microsystem for Patent Procedures
• Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations
• Patent Cooperation Treaty
• The Strasbourg Agreement on the International Patent Classification
• Nice Agreement on the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks
• Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms from Unauthorized Duplication of Their Phonograms
• Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs
• "Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization"
• Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
• Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property