Finland

Firm overview

Over the last century we’ve been lucky enough to have played a part in protecting some of the world’s most ground-breaking inventions and high profile brands. You can trust us to know IP law inside out, to be curious, and to connect the dots to reach solutions others don’t.

We will provide you with a team, rich in real-world experience, comprising experts who have worked at the forefront of pioneering technologies. A substantial number of our lawyers hold qualifications in scientific or technical fields, meaning we are often called upon for our specialist knowledge and insight on large international mandates. We are respected for our creative and original solutions.

We offer both litigation and transactional support in relation to all IP rights, from small innovative projects to the largest, most complex and ground-breaking transactions and disputes.

Our approach has always been centred on client service, collaborating and innovating with our clients to create bespoke solutions that make their lives easier. This includes: our 'twobirds Pattern' product, a proprietary, in-house patent valuation and analysis tool, that allows us to landscape, analyse, and value patent portfolios in an automated and sophisticated way; and our innovative and dynamic Brand Protection Reporting Portal, which uses dynamic charts that give clients an up-to-date overview of their risk profile at any given time.

Talk to us to find out how our tools, experience and our genuine passion for IP can help you devise a strategy that will help to maintain your competitive edge, whilst protecting and optimising your IP in the best way possible.

Internationally Bird & Bird has over 400 IP lawyers, attorneys and legal professionals across our 29 offices, many of whom have known each other and worked together for years, meaning we're all on the same page and offer consistency and quality that runs through all levels of seniority. We are therefore ideally placed to devise and coordinate multi-jurisdictional litigation strategies and,in the future, to represent clients before the Unified Patent Court.

Office Locations: Australia, Belgium, China, Czech Republic & Slovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates and United States of America

Firm overview

Papula-Nevinpat is a 100% Finnish, privately owned company founded in 1975. Today, we serve hundreds of clients, ranging from startups to global Fortune 500 companies in Finland and worldwide, including the United States and China. This extensive reach makes us one of the most significant trademark, design, and patent agencies in Finland.

Our head office is in Helsinki, with additional branches in Lappeenranta, Tampere, and Pori. We also have a strong presence in Eurasia. In 1990, we were the first foreign intellectual property (IP) company to establish an office in Russia, and we continue to maintain the most significant foreign presence in the country.

We represent clients directly in Finland, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Armenia. Our services extend to representation before the European Patent Office (EPO), the Eurasian Patent Office (EAPO), and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). We can also represent clients in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan through our close local associates.

Firm overview

Berggren is full-service European IP law firm headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. The firm has about 80 professionals, including 30+ qualified European patent attorneys, 20 EU trademark and design attorneys, 20 IP management and commercialization specialists and more than 50 paralegal and IP specialists. 

For more than 80 years Berggren has helped businesses achieve success by assisting them with their intellectual property rights. Berggren provides professional IP services throughout the entire IP life cycle, from initial creation to protection and enforcement, using AI and other state-of-the-art digital services for IP management and client communication. Berggren´s legal team provides professional advice on any aspect of intellectual property, as well as unfair competition, advertising and marketing, commercial agreements, IT law and data protection. Berggren also assist clients in monetizing their IP assets through an in-house IP brokerage service. Thus, unlike many IP firms in Europe, Berggren includes professionals, paralegals and IP specialists working on all aspects of intellectual property.  This structure allows for the formation of specialized teams for various activities, including, for example, in emerging and dynamic legal areas such as Data Protection, Artificial Intelligence, Medtech and 3D printing. 

Client success is the primary focus of the firm and we regularly ask for client feedback on our performance through various surveys, including the well-recognized Net Promoter Score (“NPS”) used by many companies and law firms around the world. The historical average score for law firms is between plus 25 and 30. In 2019, Berggren achieved an NPS score of plus 60, which is considered extremely high for entities providing legal services. 

In addition, Berggren not only assists clients with their innovation-related activities but the firm itself is innovative having created a proprietary IP management tool called Greip which has recently been spun off from the firm. The Greip tool is now sold to companies and other IP firms. 

Berggren services also include an IP brokerage team which is headed by a licensing professional who brings to the firm years of experience from having worked as a director of global licensing at a large Finnish telecommunications company.

Firm overview

Established in 1928, Boco IP is a double award-winning, internationally operating intellectual property firm, offering confidential, personal and flexible service for more than 90 years.

The firm employs approximately 35 attorneys and IP specialists with deep technological expertise across a diverse range of technical fields. Clients include companies working in medicine, the chemical industry, information and communications technology (ICT) and the metal, mining and paper industries, always get the support that they need from attorneys who understand both the technical and commercial aspects of their businesses.

The firm’s IPR 360° concept provides a comprehensive range of IP services designed to support every aspect of clients’ businesses, be it drawing up IP strategies, assisting with innovation capture, protecting technologies or brands, defending existing IP or educating the client’s organization.

As one of the longest-established IP firms in the Nordics, Boco IP has a long tradition of international collaboration, and has created an extensive and trusted international network of patent attorneys.

The firm’s innovative atmosphere and care for its personnel have been key factors in the firm's success. A good reputation as an employer continues to attract new, competent experts to the team. Boco IP has also been nominated six years in a row by the Great Place to Work Institute as one of the best places to work in Finland.