The patent attorney is your best assistant in protecting intellectual property
Starting a new company or developing new products costs a lot of money. Quite often, in order to save money, intellectual property, or creative property, is left unprotected or, in the best cas...
We would like to inform you that our employees have completed the SME Fund training of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) regarding the IP Scan support offered to companies. In addition to other EUIPO program grants, we are now ready to offer a company's intellectua...
The support program of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is open! Starting in January, grant applications for the protection of intellectual property rights (trademarks, designs, patents, plant varieties) can once again...
A market survey conducted a couple of years ago under the leadership of the Patent Office revealed that only 35% of Estonian entrepreneurs were aware of patent attorneys (since trademark/patent attorneys are collectively called 'patent attorney' in Estonia, the same term is used here for both).
Owners of European patents or their representatives have repeatedly had the question of what to do if a B8 or B9 document is issued to a European patent enforced in Estonia. The short answer is that it must be re-enforced in Estonia, despite the fact that it is only a correction of the title page...
The Patent Office together with the Estonian Language Institute organized a word competition in November 2023 to find the Estonian equivalent of the word "intellectual property". Intellectual property is property arising as a result of mental work, the right to the results of a person's creative ...
The time has come when home-grown garden products are valued. Again and again, new recipes are invented to preserve garden products, but also to find new flavors. It is often discovered that the invented recipes are so good that one wants to offer them for sale. At the same time, the fear of copy...
We are happy and proud to announce that our Partner and Trademark Attorney, Riina Pärn, has been recognized again by the international guide WTR1000 as the ‘Leading Trademark Professional’ in Estonia in both, litigation and prosecution, categories. The recognition and the named r...
Our Partner and Trademark Attorney, Riina Pärn, has successfully opposed the Estonian trademark application ’YOGA ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL (logo)’ Appl. No. M202000969 in class 41 filed by YOGA ALLIANCE PTY LTD on September 22, 2020 in the following figurative form (‘Opposed ...
On 10 January 2022, the expanded EU SME Fund support program was launched. This is a project launched last year on the initiative of the European Commission and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in response to the pandemic situation and to support ...
Marit is the licensed Estonian Patent Attorney and worked several years at the Estonian Patent Office as the Patent Expert and for over 10 years with the Patent Agency KÄOSAAR. Marit is valuable member in our team! She has profound experience in the field of patents and utility models for ov...
Startups, while starting the business and entering into the markets with the products or services, may find the protection of their Intellectual Property (IP) rights costly, and thereby, often willing to avoid or keep such costs down. Such position may be often short-sighted and may involve certa...
Sometimes our clients approach us to get a global trademark in ’one set’ – although such global rights would be perfect, we have to disappoint our clients from time-to-time for such misunderstanding – there is no such global right neither now nor envisaged for the future. ...
