The Market Court of Finland, in its recent decision, MAO: 198/13, rendered on May 7, 2013, ruled that a packaging of the plaintiff was not sufficiently known to the relevant audience to justify cease and desist order against the defendant using potentially confusingly similar packaging for their products, based on the Unfair Business Practices Act (1061/81).

IFCLA, the International Federation of Computer Law Associations, was founded in December 1986 by the Belgian, French and Dutch IT Law Associations in order to promote international collaboration...

Finland is moving to a new regulatory model that will allow licensed operators to offer betting and certain online gambling products, ending the monopoly in these areas from July 2027.

We have previously published two blog posts, (here and here) where we reported that the Finnish Government is planning to reform the gambling system and open it to competition under a licence model from January 2026.

The Tokyo Olympics are nearly upon us. Major sporting events like the Olympics involve a great deal of publicity and positive mental images, which makes them attractive to marketers.

Finnish players potentially face very significant tax implications if playing on online gambling platforms that lack a Finnish licence.

Throughout the fall 2022 there has been an on-going discussion concerning the partial opening of the Finnish gambling monopoly, which currently is completely operated by the state-owned Veikkaus Oy (hereinafter "Veikkaus").

In our blog series regarding the Finnish gambling system reform, we have previously published three blogs (Part I, Part II, and Part III), where we reported...