What is design right?
Design right is the most important legal tool to protect industrial designs. You can protect your design by registering it, in which case you secure yourself an exclusive right to the products you have designed.
Design rights are mainly used in business, but they can as well be applied for or owned by private persons.
Please note that you can apply to register your design at the Finnish
Patent and Registration Office (PRH) only in Finnish or in Swedish. Read more about how to apply.
Apply to register your design in Finnish or in Swedish.
Other possibilities to protect your rights
A trademark distinguishes the goods and services of your company from similar goods and services of other companies. Read more about trademarks.
A patent gives you an exclusive right to use your invention commercially. Read more about patents.
A utility model,
like a patent, gives you an exclusive right to use your invention
commercially. It is intended to protect simple device and product
inventions. Read more about utility models.
Current affairs
US IPR Update Seminar 10 April 2018
Finnish Patent and Registration Office organizes an update seminar on US IPR System.
The seminar has two parts: design patent session in the morning and patent session in the afternoon. You may participate in either one of the two sessions or both.
The seminar is free of charge and will be conducted in English.
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- Potential effects of Brexit on the validity of EU trademarks and Community designs in Great Britain and Northern Ireland after 30 March 2019 11.10.2018