Friday, 15 July 2016

The Finnish Trademarks Act Will Be Revised

Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment has appointed a working group to revise the current Trademarks Act (7/1964). The Ministry gave its decision on 22 June 2016.

This will be an overall reform that takes care of the implementation of the revised EU Trademark Directive 2015/2436 and the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks. This revision will also bring some changes to the Trade Names Act (128/1979).

The term of operation for the working group is between 15 August 2016 and 15 December 2017. The group will prepare a Government Proposal and the Proposal will be handed to the Parliament in Autumn 2018.

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