Numero 2-3/2018

Julkaistu 28.8.2018

Commercializing IPR requires systematic approach

The Patent Business team at Nokia is recognized worldwide for significant patent deals. IPRinfo interviewed two key figures, Ilkka Rahnasto and Eeva Hakoranta, to find out what makes their team so…

Editorial

Once Upon a Time

Once upon a time in Finland there was an exotic field of law called intellectual property law. In the 1970s, it was mainly the domain of practitioners like patent attorneys, book publishers and the…

Fairness, morality and ordre public in intellectual property

In August 2018, the 37th Annual Congress of ATRIP (the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and…

Pursuing the academic IP path

After defending their dissertations in Finland, many IPR specialists continue their careers as researchers in Finnish…

Brexit and IP law: working hard not to fall off a cliff

Professor Graeme Dinwoodie reminds that the IP provisions in the Brexit Withdrawal Agreements depend on the political…

Nari Lee, Hanken; photo by Päivi Helander

Interview

I want to be useful

The chair of the ATRIP local organising committee in Finland, Nari Lee would like to see more young scholars and…

Interview

Annette Kur focuses on the borderlines between IP and other fields of law

Professor Annette Kur is known to many generations of IPR students and researchers from her books, articles and…

IPR research on artificial intelligence and digital technologies

The current research by both Professor Taina Pihlajarinne and Dr Rosa-Maria Ballardini focuses on the impact of…

Interview

IPR is part of the competitive edge of global companies

In business, managing intellectual property on a global level is in a state of constant change. IPRinfo asked…

IPR as protected investments in the TTIP – a potential threat to EU’s regulatory powers?

Intellectual property is often included in the list of the investments protected by free trade agreements and can…

Reforming copyright for the digital single market

In the current copyright reform of the EU, the proposed directive on copyright in the digital single market would…

Finnish IP professors in Joensuu and Turku

In Finland, legal issues of intellectual and industrial property can be studied in many institutions and at many…

Old licensing models pose problems in multimedia

Professor Rainer Oesch calls for new ways of licensing new kind of educational material. In schools and universities…

Doctoral candidates explore new areas of IPR

In 2018, there are brilliant young IPR researchers in all Finnish universities working on new issues like fashion,…

Paying the cost to be the boss?

It didn’t use to be this complicated. You bought something, and it was yours, easy as that. If you bought a book, you…