Finland

Firm overview

Laine IP Oy stands among the global leaders in Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) services, renowned for our exceptional professionalism, unwavering customer orientation, and steadfast reliability. Since our establishment in 1979, we have expanded our expertise beyond European borders, offering a comprehensive suite of services that cater to a diverse international clientele. Our offerings include the preparation and prosecution of European, Finnish, and U.S. patents, ensuring our clients receive top-tier support in these critical regions.

With a robust team of over 30 highly skilled patent and trademark attorneys and agents, Laine IP Oy operates from strategic locations in Helsinki, Turku, and Tampere. This international presence underscores our commitment to delivering unparalleled representation and customer service, fostering deep, enduring relationships with clients across the globe.

Our core values – Reliability, Personal Service, Efficiency, Competitiveness, and Flexibility – are the pillars of our approach. We emphasize clear, precise communication, aiming to simplify the complexity of IPR processes and focus on delivering favorable outcomes for our clients. Our hands-on strategy in IPR protection involves proactive expertise in relevant technology areas, coupled with a keen understanding of each client's unique business context, regardless of their size.

In the realm of patents, our prowess is particularly evident. Our European practice boasts seasoned European Patent Attorneys across various technological fields. Additionally, our in-house U.S. Patent Agents offer direct representation and patent prosecution services before the USPTO from our Helsinki base. This international capability positions us uniquely to serve clients' needs effectively in both European and American markets.

Our patent attorneys are also distinguished in their frequent participation in oral proceedings before opposition and appeal boards and in assisting clients in high-stakes litigations. Our track record includes successful representation in complex patent infringement cases in Finnish courts, particularly in pharmaceutics and chemical technology. Four of our attorneys, Ms. Kaisa Suominen, Ms. Mirja Matilainen, Mr. Jarkko Tiilikainen and Mr. Jari Nieminen are qualified to represent our clients in the UPC.

Our expertise spans all major key technology areas, including Chemistry and Bioscience, ICT and Electronics. Each team, led by industry experts like Ms. Hanna Laurén and Mr. Jussi Jaatinen, brings deep experience and innovative solutions to a wide array of technical fields.

Trademark, Desing and Legal team, led by Mr. Reijo Kokko, delivers personal and flexible service with years of experience and commitment. Our services include trademark & design protection and prosecution both in Finland and internationally, trademark oppositions, litigation and infringement issues, as well as IP-related contracts.

Besides our core services, we offer a range of other IPR services, such as searches, clearances, analysis, and opinions, as well as in-house consulting and training on IPR strategies and portfolio management.

We pride ourselves on our global network affiliations with prestigious organizations like AIPPI, FICPI, INTA, LES, APAA, and AIPLA, reflecting our commitment to staying at the forefront of IPR developments worldwide.

At Laine IP Oy, we don’t just offer services; we deliver a partnership built on trust, expertise, and a global perspective. Partner with us for a journey towards securing and maximizing your intellectual property rights, no matter where you are in the world.

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.

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

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