European Patent Attorney Sirje Kahu focused on patenting strategies, and differences between the European Patent and the prospective Unitary Patent. EU Trademark and Design Attorney KadrI Aua addressed copyright topics, and issues related to the ownership and exploitation of personal and economic IP rights in employer-employee relationship as well as in the cooperation between the R&D institutions and companies. Participants were provided with recommendations with regard to intellectual property subjects that need to be considered and agreed upon in R&D cooperation, employment and services contracts.

At the intellectual property webinar Sirje Kahu, European Patent Attorney and EU Trademark Attorney, and Kadri Aua, EU Trademark Attorney, of Patent Bureau Ustervall shared to the entrepreneurs  practical information on what can be protected by intellectual property, what is the potential of intellectual property for the benefit of growth of a business and what are potential intellectual property risks, how to create more value by intellectual property, how to choose a strong trademark, and how to arrange one’s trademark portfolio considering the Brexit. 

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25th birthday of Ustervall
Patent agency Ustervall was established on 24 January 1994.  What were the developments at that time in Estonia? Estonian independence was restored and the Estonian Patent Office was re-established on 1991. The first two laws on intellectual property, the Copyright Act and the Trademarks Act were enforced on 1992, and the Patents Act on 1994. Thus, it was right time to start our own patent agency, called Ustervall.