Castrén & Snellman is widely considered one of Finland’s leading firms in intellectual property matters. Our experts have an extensive command of IP law, and many of them also have solid practical experience of working in technology and other industry companies. This enables us to create maximum value for our clients, supporting their businesses with practical and innovative solutions.
We provide our clients with all the IP-related legal services they need:
- patents, utility models and employee inventions
- trademarks, business names and domain names
- design rights
- copyrights and related rights, databases
- franchising
- unfair competition
We also handle trademark and domain name applications globally.
Our expertise and international experience means that we often handle our clients’ most extensive and demanding IP projects in various industries, such as the energy forestry, biotechnology, food and pharmaceutical industries. In practice, these assignments include extensive R&D or manufacturing outsourcing projects, technology acquisitions, licence agreements, various R&D projects, joint ventures and consortium agreements.
We also advise our clients in disputes relating to the above matters, such as patent infringement and invalidation cases and trademark, copyright and franchising litigation. We have extensive experience in handling disputes before arbitral tribunals, general courts and the Market Court of Finland. We are also recognised for our ability to find alternative, negotiated solutions to disputes, enabling our clients to avoid traditional trials, which can often be unpredictable.
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