Notifying Member

Finland

Details of the notified legal text

Title

Act on the Right in Employee Inventions, 1967/656

Subject matter

Patents (including plant variety protection)

Nature of notification

[X]     Main dedicated intellectual property law or regulation

[  ]     Other law or regulation

Link to legal text

https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/IP/FIN/18_4503_00_e.pdf
(English)

https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/IP/FIN/18_4503_00_x1.pdf
(Finnish)

https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/IP/FIN/18_4503_00_x2.pdf

(Swedish)

Notification status

[  ]     First notification

[  ]     Amendment or revision to notified legal text

[X]     Replacement or consolidation of notified legal text(s)

Previous notification(s) referred to

IP/N/1/FIN/P/11

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Brief description of the notified legal text

Act amending section 12 of the Act on the Right in Employee Inventions, adopted on 31 January 2013, 2013/102, entry into force on 1 September 2013

-       Laki oikeudesta työntekijän tekemiin keksintöihin annetun lain 12 §:n muuttamisesta

-       Lag om ändring av 12 § i lagen om rätt till arbetstagares uppfinningar

Amendments concerning the centralisation of intellectual property matters to the Market Court. 

Act amending the Act on the Right in Employee Inventions, adopted on 19 May 2006, 2006/370, entry into force on 1 January 2007

-      Laki oikeudesta työntekijän tekemiin keksintöihin annetun lain muuttamisesta

-      Lag om ändring av lagen om rätt till arbetstagares uppfinningar

Amendment on Sections concerning innovations made in universities. Addition of a Section on adding a new division for university inventions to the Employee Invention Committee (työsuhdekeksintölautakunta in Finnish).

Language(s) of notified legal text

English, Finnish, Swedish

Entry into force

1 September 2013

Other date

Adoption: 31 January 2013

Notification details

Submission date of notification

20 December 2017

Other information

Agency or authority responsible

Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment