Papula-Nevinpat’s Folke Johansson, Markku Simmelvuo and Marina Smirnova have again been named as IP Leaders in the 2021 edition of World Intellectual Property Review’s WIPR Leaders.
Folke Johansson, who heads our firm’s patent department, and Markku Simmelvuo, our Managing Director, were both ranked in the patent category in Finland. In Russia, Marina Smirnova was ranked in the patent as well as in the trademark category.
WIPR Leaders features more than 1,000 professionals from 68 countries. Profiling the leading IP practitioners from around the world, WIPR Leaders consists of an online directory as well as a hard copy handbook. All Leaders were chosen after a four-month nomination process, in which WIPR sought views from 12,000 IP professionals.
See the full WIPR Leaders 2021 here.
The total number of trademark applications increased again in Russia in 2020. The number of trademark filings increased last year by more than 6,000 filings compared to 2019, with 93,926 applications in total.
Papula-Nevinpat's Heidi Mikkola, Jussi Mikkola, Markku Simmelvuo, Alexander Polikarpov and Marina Sokolova named as IP STARS 2021. Congratulations!
To protect the IPR behind computer games, developers should try to patent specific technical features that impact gameplay. Patent Attorney Tomi Konkonen explains with some industry examples.
Kindly note that our Helsinki head office will be closed for Ascension Day on Thursday 13 May 2021 and will be fully operational again on Friday 14 May 2021.
