IPR University Center Immateriaalioikeusinstituutti

ELKI
ELKI is a link database maintained by the Finnish Library of Parliament. ELKI covers public Internet resources from various fields of knowledge concentrating on political and legal resources, public administration and the European Union. The links can be accessed by the country, by the topic or using free search.
http://www.eduskunta.fi/kirjasto/Elki/elkieng.html

World Intellectual Property Organization
http://www.wipo.org/

International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property AIPPI
http://www.aippi.org/

LES Scandinavia / Licensing Executives Society
LES is a world-wide non-profit association of licensing professionals. LES Scandinavia is a regional society of LES International.
http://www.les-scandinavia.org/Home.asp

Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights TRIPS (.pdf)
http://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/27-trips.pdf

The web site of the European Commission DG Internal Market / Industrial property rights, containing links to legislation, documents and publications.
http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/indprop/index_en.htm

European Commission, DG Internal Market / Intellectual property rights. The site contains links to legislation, documents, studies and other publications concerning copyright and the neighbouring rights.
http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/copyright/index_en.htm

European Patent Office, EPO
http://www.european-patent-office.org

UNESCO. Under Copyright you will find a lot of links to research-related information on author's rights.
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/

IPR Helpdesk. News service maintained by academic and commercial organisations.
http://www.ipr-helpdesk.org

ip4inno ("Intellectual Property for Innovation") is a project funded by the European Commission as a part of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) for Research and Technological Development. It helps small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) enhance their understanding of intellectual property rights (IPR). The web site has useful links both to basics of IPR and to practical tools.
http://www.ip4inno.eu/index.php?id=1

Copyright Management for Scholarship. Information on the author's rights of researchers and the s.c. principles of Zwolle.
http://www.surf.nl/copyright/

The Pan-European Researcher's Mobility Portal is a web site maintained by the European Commission. It contains information on researcher vacancies in EU member states and practical information on different countries. The Researcher's Mobility Portal - Finland is updated by the Academy of Finland. On this site you can also find a comprehensive guide on IPR issues relevant for a researcher even in other countries than Finland.
http://www2.aka.fi/index.asp?id=597bda0d53e84e13835bfacd7b9b3978&tabletarget
=data_1&laytmp=aka_fi

Vacancies for researchers all over the world can be found on the Researcher's Mobility Portal maintained by the European Commission. The contents of this site were moved in Summer 2008 to be part of the research web sites at CORDIS:
http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index_en.cfm

The National Board of Patents and Registration (NBPR)
http://www.prh.fi/en.html

The web site of Finnish science and technology information service Research.fi contains news, statistics, other information and links.:
http://www.research.fi/en

Copyright issues in Finland fall under the administration of the Ministry of Education. Information on copyright and links to relevant organisations can be found on the web site of the Ministry:
http://www.minedu.fi/OPM/Tekijaenoikeus/?lang=en

Finnish research libraries are open to everyone, and their catalogues are usually available onlin in the Internet. A list with links to the Finnish research libraries:
http://www.nationallibrary.fi/libraries/tilke_eng.html

The Court of Justice of the European Communities and the Court of First Instance of the European Communities. To find texts of judgments, orders and opinions of the AG, choose Case law - Search forms. You can search by case number, subject area or free text words. To find press releases and the Calendar of sessions, choose News - Press Releases or Diary
http://www.curia.eu.int/en

WIPO: decisions of the panel. (UDRP, registry-specified policies). The decisions are grouped 200 cases in one list.
http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/index.html

The starting page for the Courts of the United States of America. Links to the Supreme Court, Appeal Courts of and District Courts.
http://www.uscourts.gov/

Decisions of the Board of Appeal of European Patent Office (EPO); list of updates:
http://legal.european-patent-office.org/dg3/updates

Decisions of OHIM, Office of Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade marks and Designs). Refused trade marks, decisions of the Trade Mark Opposition Division and Cancellation Division, decisions of the Boards of Appeal . See "Professional Area", choose Legal Texts or Case Law. Select either trade marks or designs.
http://oami.europa.eu/

The Supreme Court of Finland.
http://www.kko.fi/english

The Supreme Administrative Court of Finland.
http://www.kho.fi/en

The IPKat weblog covers copyright, patent, trade mark, information technology and privacy/confidentiality issues, particularly IPR cases, from a mainly UK and European perspective. The IPKat team consists of well known IPR professionals / journalists. Readers can also post their comments.
http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/

IPR-Helpdesk is a project established by several European universities and enterprises. It is part of a larger project financed by the CIP (Competition and Innovation Programme) and DG Enterprise and Industry of the European Commission. The web site contains information on IPR news and events.
http://www.ipr-helpdesk.org

IP Newsflash is a non-profit IP meta-information portal maintained by Rolf Claessen. It browses various information channels in Internet and presents (links to) IP information - with the main focus on patents - on a single page. The readers may use IP Newsflash copyright material for research or personal use (see the Disclaimer).
http://www.ipnewsflash.com/