Do you sew clothing from Marimekko fabrics or knit socks adorned with familiar designs like Unikko, Karhu, or Pätkis? It’s essential to understand when you need permission and when you’re free to use patterns and instructions, as these may be protected by intellectual property rights.

What if you need someone else's content for your teaching or research? Kirsi Salmela, Head of Legal at Kopiosto and Maarit Jokela, IPR expert at the Innovation Centre, gave us some good tips on this, which we summarise in the blog.

Researcher, teacher, student: do you know how to use different materials in your teaching and research? When do you need permission and what does a Kopiosto’s copy licence allow you to do? And who owns IPR in universities?

The owner of intellectual property rights can be the university, the creator of the result, or a project partner. Ownership is influenced by certain laws, conditions given by the funder, and agreements between project partners.

How do you make sure your design doesn't end up on other people's products? How do you keep the results of your work in your own hands and prevent your designs from being copied?

When you search the University of Oulu study guide with the keyword innov*, you will find nearly 30 courses related to innovation. What is taught about innovation? Why is the topic so relevant that it is worth taking courses on?

When you set up a company for the first time, you will be dealing with many unfamiliar things. You may even come across a pitfall or two. The following tips from experts can help you pay attention to the right things.

Making and disclosing an invention, the related processes within the University and the patenting process itself form a continuum.

This spring, the Innovation Centre of the University of Oulu organized eight training courses related to intellectual property rights (IPR). We found out why participants took part in IPR trainings and what they learned from them.

Open science has long been promoted in Finland. But does it exclude the commercial utilisation of research results?