What is design right?
Design right is the most important legal tool to protect industrial designs. You can protect your design by registering it, in which case you secure yourself an exclusive right to the products you have designed.
Design rights are mainly used in business, but they can as well be applied for or owned by private persons.
Please note that you can apply to register your design at the Finnish
Patent and Registration Office (PRH) only in Finnish or in Swedish. Read more about how to apply.
Apply to register your design in Finnish or in Swedish.
Other possibilities to protect your rights
A trademark distinguishes the goods and services of your company from similar goods and services of other companies. Read more about trademarks.
A patent gives you an exclusive right to use your invention commercially. Read more about patents.
A utility model,
like a patent, gives you an exclusive right to use your invention
commercially. It is intended to protect simple device and product
inventions. Read more about utility models.
Current affairs
The Ideas Powered for business SME Fund provides financial support to EU small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for the protection of their intellectual property (IP) rights.
- Our customer service in Helsinki is closed until 4 March 2022 – online services are running normally 24.01.2022
- Protect your intellectual property: SME Fund now open for grant applications 18.01.2022
- SMEs: Receive financial support to make use of your intellectual property 05.01.2022
- Changes to our fees on 1 January 2022 01.01.2022
- Changes to our fees on 1 January 2022 28.12.2021