Provided by Castrén & Snellman
We are committed to providing unique IP solutions.
We are one of Finland’s leading and most experienced IP practices. Our versatile team of lawyers and specialists cover every area of IP, from protection to commercialisation and enforcement.
A diverse range of clients come to us for our practical and business-oriented advice on patents, trademarks, designs, copyrights, employee inventions, trade secrets, advertising and marketing law.
The solutions we provide and our expertise have repeatedly been acknowledged in the top tier by international directories such as Chambers Europe and Global, Legal500, World Trademark Review and IAM Patent 1000.
Contact: Sakari Salonen, Kim Parviainen, Hanna Paloheimo and Nina Mikander
Provided by Chambers
Castrén & Snellman enjoys a much-admired practice which handles a broad range of IP matters, including trade mark infringement cases, patent disputes and brand protection issues. The team also advises on marketing and advertising matters, and is retained by a sizeable client roster which includes technology, manufacturing and pharmaceutical companies.
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Castrén & Snellman represented BMW before the Finnish Market Court in a trade mark infringement case.
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"Castrén & Snellman are amazing. Their advice is very pragmatic and adapted to our business needs. It comes with additional information and is detailed."
"Castrén & Snellman are amazing. Their advice is very pragmatic and adapted to our business needs. It comes with additional information and is detailed."
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Sakari Salonen regularly advises clients from the manufacturing and technology industries on issues related to portfolio management and brand protection issues, including representing them in patent and trade mark infringement and invalidity proceedings and anti-counterfeiting matters.
Hanna Paloheimo is head of Castrén & Snellman's life sciences practice. She advises pharmaceutical companies on a broad range of issues, including patent disputes, marketing law and the intellectual property aspects of commercial agreements.
Kim Parviainen continues to display a robust IP practice. He assists clients with a broad range of relevant mandates, including trade mark prosecution and enforcement matters, patent infringement proceedings and trade secrets litigation.
"His particular skill is that he writes the most excellent briefs. He is a skilled lawyer, knowing laws by heart and every case that has ever happened in Finland, but he also gets how things work in practice and gives super practical advice, and that's how he writes his briefs, which makes them understandable."
"Kim Parviainen has very broad knowledge of IP, and of copyright in particular. When it comes to case law from the EU, the underlying directives and subject matter knowledge, he is at a very high level."
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Head of Department
Hilma-Karoliina Markkanen
Kim Parviainen
Nina Mikander
Head of Department
Piia Raappana
Head of Department
Tiina Orre
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Anora Group
BMW AG
Boehringer Ingelheim
Innohome Oy
Merck KGaA and Merck Oy
OP Financial Group
The Finnish Composer’s Copyright Society Teosto
Valio Ltd
Wärtsilä Corporation
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