WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION 
ORGANISATION MONDIALE DU COMMERCE 
ORGANIZACION MUNDIAL DEL COMERCIO 
Council for Trade-Related Aspects 
of Intellectual Property Rights IP/NI 1 IFIN/DI 1 
30 May 1996 
(96-2037) 
Original: English/ 
anglaisl 
ingles 
MAIN DEDICATED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWS AND REGULATIONS 
NOTIFIED UNDER ARTICLE 63.2 OF THE AGREEMENT 
Finland 
The present document reproducesl the Design Protection Act, as notified by Finland under 
Article 63.2 of the Agreement (see document IP/N/I/FIN/I). 
Conseil des aspects des droits de propriete 
intellectuelle qui touchent an commerce 
PRINCIPALES LOIS ET REGLEMENTATIONS CONSACREES A LA 
PROPRIETE INTELLECTUELLE NOTIFIEES AU TITRE 
DE L'ARTICLE 63:2 DE L'ACCORD 
Finlande 
Le present document contient le texte de la Loi sur la protection des dessins et modeles 1 , notifiee 
par la Finlande au titre de l'article 63:2 de l' Accord (voir le document IP/N/l/FIN/I). 
Consejo de los Aspectos de los Derechos de Propiedad 
Intelectual relacionados con el Comercio 
PRINCIPALES LEYES Y REGLAMENTOS DEDICADOS A LA 
PROPIEDAD INTELECTUAL NOTIFICADOS EN VIRTUD 
DEL pARRAFO 2 DEL ARTicULO 63 DEL ACUERDO 
Finlandia 
En el presente documento se reproduce la Ley de Protecci6n de Dibujos y Modelos, notificada 
por Finlandia en virtud de 10 dispuesto en el parrafo 2 del articulo 63 del Acuerdo (vease el 
documento IP /N / I /FIN 11). 
lEnglish only/anglais seulement/en ingles solamente. IP IN/l/PIN/OIl 
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FINLAND 
REGISTERED DESIGNS ACT (Unofficial draft) 
(Act No. 221 of March 12, 1971, as last amended by Acts Nos. 802 of May 10, 1991, 
578 of June 26, 1992, 1035 of Novelnber 13, 1992, 1411 of Decenlber 18, 1992 and 
718 of 21 April, 1995) 
Chapter I. General Provisions 
Section 1 
In this Act, the term "design" shall mean the prototype for an article's appearance 
or for an ornament. 
The creator of a design or his assignee, may obtain through registra tion the 
exclusive right to use the design in the course of trade, in accordance with this Act 
(the right to (l design). 
Section 2 
A design shall be registered only if it substantially differs froIn what has become 
known before the date of the application for registration. 
In this context, the term "known" shall apply to everything that has been made 
available to the public, whether as the result of reproduction, exhibition, offering 
for sale, or otherwise. Even a design that is not available to the public shall be 
deemed to be known if the design is evident from an application in this country 
for a patent or a utility model or for registration of a tradeInark or a design, where 
such application has been -or is deemed under the relevant provisions to have 
been -made before the date stated in subsection (1) and where the design is 
subsequently, when the application is dealt with, made available to the public. 
Section 3 
A design may nevertheless be registered where, during the six Inonths before the 
application for registration was filed, it was 111ade available to the public: 
(1) as a result of a 111anifest abuse with respect to the applicant or his 
predecessor in title; or . 
(2) due to the design's display, by the applicant or his predecessor in 
title, at an official or officially recognized international exhibition. 
Sectio11 4 
A design shall not be registered: 
(1) if the design or its utilization conflicts \vith morality or public order, 
(2) if, without permission, the design includes: 
(a) a national coat of anns, a national flag or other State en1blem, an 
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as those for which the design is intended, a Finnish municipal coat of arms, or 
the flag, coat of arms or other emblem, designation or abbreviation of the 
designation of an international intergovernmental organization, or a figure, 
designation or abbreviation of a designation that Inay be confused with the 
emblem, indication, designation or abbreviation of a designation of the kind 
referred to in this paragra ph; 
(b) anything which 111ay be understood to be another person's protected 
trade name, trade symbol or tradelnark \vhich has become cOll1lnonly kno\vn in 
this country, or the surname, pseudonyn1 or similar name or the portrait of 
another person, unless the name or portrait lnanifestly refers to a person long 
since deceased; 
(c) anything that may be interpreted as the title of another person's 
protected literary or artistic work, provided such title is distinctive, or anything 
which infringes another's copyright to such a work or his right to a photographic 
illustration; 
(d) anything that does not substantially differ from a design registered 
in Finland in the name of another person; or 
(e) anything that does not substantially differ froIn a utility model 
registered in Finland in the name of another person. 
Sectio1l 5 
Subject to the exceptions stated below, the right to a design implies that no one 
other than the owner of the right may, without the owner's permission, use the 
design in the course of trade by making, importing, offering, offering for sale, 
assigning or hiring out an article which does not substantially differ from the 
design or which includes sOlnething which does not substantially differ from it. 
The right to a design relates only to the articles for which the design has been 
registered and to articles similar thereto. 
The right to a design does not give its owner the right to deny the utilization of 
an article protected by the right to the design if the article has by or with the 
consent of the owner of the right to the design been placed on the market within 
the European Economic Area. 
Section 6 
Any person who has, in the course of trade, been using a design in this country, at 
the time the application for registration is made, may notwithstanding another's 
right to the design continue such use while retaining its general character, 
provided that such use did not entail a manifest abuse with respect to the 
applicant for registration or to his predecessor in title. Under similar conditions, 
any person who has taken substantial steps to use the design in the course of trade 
in this country shall have the same right of use. 
The right defined in subsection (1) 111ay be transferred only together wi th the 
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Section 7 
The Government may order that spare parts and accessories for aircraft may be 
imported into this country, not'ir'vithstanding the right to a design, where such 
spare parts and accessories are to be used for the repair of aircraft belonging to a 
foreign country in which corresponding benefits are accorded to this country's 
aircraft. 
Section 8 
The Government lnay decree that an application for registration of a design 
which has previously been stated in an application for protection outside this 
country shall, at the request of the applicant, be deemed for the purposes of 
Sections 2 and 6 to have been n1ade at the same time as the application outside 
this country. 
The decree shall specify in more detail the conditions under \vhich such priority 
may be enjoyed. 
Chapter 11. 
The Application for Registration and Processing Thereof 
Section 9 
The registering authority shall be the National Board of Patents and Registration. 
Section 10 
Applications for registration of designs shall be made in writing to the registering 
authority. 
The application shall contain information concerning the article for which 
registration of the design is applied for. The application shall mention the creator 
of the design. Where the applicant is not the creator, he shall produce evidence of 
his right to the design. 
A representation of the design shall be attached to the application document. 
Where the applicant, before the application is published in accordance with the 
provisions of Section 18, also deposits a model, the model shall be qeemed to 
disclose the design. There shall also be attached to the application an attestation by 
the applicant confirming that the design to his knowledge has not, before the date 
when the a pplica tion is made or is deemed under the provisions of Section 8 to 
have been made, become known so as to preclude registration of the design by 
virtue of Sections 2 and 3. 
When filing the application,the applicant shall pay the application fee and 
additional fees stated in Section 47. Section 11 IP 1Nl lIFIN/DI 1 
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An application Inay include more than one design where the articles for which 
registration of the design is applied for are related with respect to manufacture 
and use. An application for such multiple registration may comprise not more 
than 20 designs. 
Multiple registrations may not concern ornaments. 
Section 12 
An applicant who is not dOlniciled in this country shall have an agent resId.ent In 
the country who is empo\vered to represent him in all matters concerning the 
applica tion. 
Section 13 
An application for registration of a design shall not be deemed to have been made 
until the applicant has deposited '\vith the registering authority a representation 
or a model of the design. 
An application must not be altered so as to relate to a design or an article other 
than the design or article stated in the application. 
Section 14 
When examining an application for registration of a design, the registering 
authority shall, to the extent decreed by the Government, establish whether the 
conditions for registration of the design have been satisfied. Where the applicant 
has not observed the prescribed requirements regarding the application, or where 
the authority finds that there are other objections to acceptance of the application, 
the applicant shall be invited by an Office action to answer the objections or to 
make a correction within a prescribed period. 
Where the applicant fails within the prescribed period to submit a statement or to 
take steps to remedy a defect to which attention has been drawn, the application 
shall be dismissed as abandoned. A warning to this effect shall be included in the 
Office action. 
Ho\vever, the application shall be reinstated if, within two months after the 
expiration of the prescribed period, the applicant so requests and makes a reply to 
the Office action or takes steps to ren1edy the defect and within the same period 
pays the prescribed reinstatelnent fee. Reinstatement Inay be granted only once. 
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If there is still any objection to acceptance after the applicant's reply to the Office 
action and provided that the applicant has had an opportunity to answer the 
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a further Office action to the applicant. 
Section 16 
Where anyone clailns before the registering authority to have a better right to the 
design than the applicant, and \vhere the matter is found to be unclear, the 
authority may instruct hiln to institute legal proceedings within a certain period, 
failing which his clain1 will be disregarded when the application is further 
examined. 
Where a dispute concerning a better right to a design is pending before a court of 
law, the application for registration lnay be suspended until the case is finally 
settled. 
Section 17 
Where anyone proves to the registering authority that he has a better right to the 
design than the applicant, the authority shall transfer the application to him if he 
so requests. The transferee shall pay a new application fee. 
Where transfer is requested, the application lnust not be altered, dismissed, 
rejected or accepted until the request for transfer has been finally decided. 
Section 18 
Where the application documents are in the prescribed fonn and no objection has 
been found to registration, the registering authority shall publish the application 
in order to give the public an opportunity to enter any opposition. 
On the applicant's request, publication may however be deferred for a period of 
up to six months counted from the filing date or the date from which priority is 
claimed under Section 8. Requests for deferment shall be made on the application 
form. 
Opposition shall be made in writing to the registering authority within two 
months from the date of publication. 
Section 19 
Unless the application documents are to be kept secret following the applicant's 
request for deferment under Section 18, they shall be available to the public. 
Where deferment of publication has been requested, the application documents 
shall be available to the public on the expiration of the prescribed period, not later 
however than six months counted from the filing date or the date from which 
priority is claimed under Section 8. If, during the prescribed period, the authority 
decides to dislniss or reject the application, the docun1ents shall not be available 
to the public unless the applicant requests reinsta tement of the application for 
exalnination or lodges an appeal. Section 20 IP/N/I/FIN/D/l 
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After the expiration of the period prescribed in Section 18(3), a further 
examination of the application shall be carried out. Sections 14, 15, 16 and 17 shall 
be applicable to such examination. 
In the case of opposition the applicant shall be informed thereof. Where the 
opposition is not manifestly unjustified, the applicant shall be given an 
opportunity to answer the opposition. 
Section 21 
An applicant for registration of a design may appeal against a 
final decision of the registering authority which has gone against him. A person 
who has duly entered opposition may appeal against a decision accepting the 
application. Where the opponent withdraws his appeal, it may nevertheless be 
considered if there are special reasons for doing so. 
An applicant may appeal against the rejection of a request for reinstatement, 
provided for in Section 14(3), and against the acceptance of a request for transfer, 
provided for in Section 17. The person making a request for transfer may appeal 
against the rejection of his request. 
Section 22 
Appeals from the decisions by the registering authority under this law shall be 
lodged with the Board of Appeals of the National Board of Patents and 
Registration. Special regulations shall apply to the appeal procedure and hearing 
of cases in the Board of Appeals. 
Section 23 
Where an application for registration of a design is accepted by a decision having 
force of law, the design shall be entered in the Register of Designs and the 
registration shall be published. 
A decision to dismiss or to reject an application that has been published in the 
manner provided for in Section 18 shall be published after the decision has force 
of law, 
Chapter Ill. Period of Validity of Registration of a Design 
Sectio1l 24 
Regis tra tion of a design shall be valid for five years, 
dating froIn the day on which the application for registration was made. 
Registration 111ay, on request, be renewed for two further periods of five years, IP/N/lIFIN/D/l 
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each such period running from the expiration of the preceding period. 
Section 25 
Applications for renewal of registration shall be 111ade in \vriting to the registering 
authority, at the earliest one year before and at the latest six lTIonths after the 
expira tion of a current period of registra tion. Wi thin the sanle period, the 
renewal and additional fees stated in Section 47 shall be paid, failing which the 
application will be rejected. 
Renewal of a registration shall be published. 
Chapter IV. Licenses, Compulsory Licenses, Assignments 
Section 26 
The right to a design may be transferred. 
Where the registered owner of a design has given another person the right to use 
the design in the course of trade (lice11se) ,the licensee may not assign his right in 
the absence of an agreement to that effect. 
A license included \vith a business may however be assigned, when the business 
is assigned, in the absence of an agreement to the contrary. In such a case the 
assignor shall remain responsible for ensuring the fulfillment of the license 
agreement. 
Section 27 
In the case of the transfer of the right to a design or a license, a note to that effect 
shall -on request and in return for a prescribed fee -be entered in the Register of 
Designs. The same shall apply to a lTIOrtgage on the right to a design. If it is 
proved that a license or mortgage that has been entered in the Register has ceased 
to be valid, the entry shall be removed. 
Subsection (1) shall apply correspondingly to a compulsory license and to the 
right referred to in Section 32(2). 
In the case of multiple registration, a transfer of the right to a design may be 
entered only with respect to all of the designs. 
In legal proceedings or other cases regarding the right to a design, the person 
whose name has last been entered in the Register of Designs as registered owner 
of the design shall be deemed to be the registered owner thereof. 
Any person requesting entry in the Register of an assignnlent of the right to a 
design or a license or a mortgage relating to such right shall, provided that he was 
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assignment. of the right to a design or right relating thereto which had not 
previously been the object of a request for entry. 
Section 28 
Any person who had, in the course of trade, been using a design, the subject of an 
application for registration, in this country when a document disclosing the 
design became available to the public, may -where the application leads to 
registration -obtain {l compulsory lice1lse to use the design, provided tha t 
extraordinary reasons exist and that such person had no knowledge of the 
applica tion and could not reasonably have obtained knowledge of it. In the same 
circumstances, any person who has taken substantial steps to use the design in the 
course of trade in this country shall have a right to such compulsory license. A 
compulsory license Inay also relate to a period before the design was registered. 
Section 29 
A compulsory license may not be granted to any person who appears unable to 
use the design in an acceptable ,vay and in accordance with the terms of the 
license. 
A compulsory license shall not prevent the registered owner of the design from 
using the design hilnself or from granting a license. A compulsory license may be 
transferred only together with the business in which it is used or in which it is 
intended to be used. 
Section 30 
A cOlnpulsory license shall be issued by the Court, which shall also decide the 
extent to which the design Inay be used and detennine the compensation and 
other terms of the license. When a substantial change in circumstances so 
demands, the Court may, if so requested by the person concerned revoke the 
license or stipulate nevv terms. 
Chapter V. Termination of Right to a Design 
Sectioll 31 
Where a design has been registered contrary to Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 and there 
still remains an obstacle to registration, the Court shall, if an action is brought to 
tha t effect, cancel the registration. Ho,vever, registration may not be cancelled on 
the ground that the person in whose name the registration was effected is only a 
part owner of the right to a design. 
An action for cancellation of registration based on the grant of registration to a 
person who is not the rightful o\vner as defined in Section I may be brought only 
by the person who claims to be entitled to the design. Such action shall be brought 
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the other drcumstances on which the action is based. Where the registered owner 
of the design acted in good faith when the design was registered or when the right 
to the design was transferred to hiln, the action may not be instituted later than 
three years after the registration. 
In other cases the action may be brought by anyone who sustains damage as a 
result of the registration. An action based on a provision of Section 4(1) or (2) (a) 
may be brought also by the Public Prosecutor. 
Section 32 
Where a design has been registered in the name of a person 'Nho is not the 
rightful owner as defined in Section 1, the Court shall, when an action is brought 
by the rightful owner, transfer the registration to him. The action shall be 
instituted within the periods stated in Section 31(2). 
Where a person who has been refused registration of a design has begun in good 
faith to use the design in the course of trade in this country or has taken 
substantial steps for that purpose, he lnay, on payment of reasonable 
compensation and on the fulfillment of other reasonable terms, continue such 
use or start the intended use, keeping its general character. In similar 
circumstances, the holder of a license entered in the Register shall have the same 
right. 
The right defined in subsection (2) may be transferred only together with the 
business in which the design is used or in which the design is intended to be 
used. 
Section 33 
Where the registered owner of a design declares in a written statement that he 
renounces his right to a design, the registering authority shall remove the design 
from the Register. 
Where the right to a design is the subject of attachlnent or a Inortgage relating 
thereto has been recorded in the Register or where a dispute concerning transfer 
of registration is pending before a court, the design may not be reInoved from the 
Register at the request of the registered owner so long as the attachment or 
mortgage continues or the dispute has not been finally settled. 
Chapter VI. Obligation to Provide Information 
Section 34 
Where a person \vho has applied for registration of a design invokes his 
application when making a claim against another person, before the application 
documents have becoIne available to the public, he shall on request allow such 
other person to be given access to the docu111ents. IP IN I lIFIN 10/1 
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A.ny person who by direct representation to another person, in an advertisement 
or by an inscription or label on an article or its packaging or otherwise, states that 
registration of a design has been applied for or granted, without at the same time 
giving infor111ation about the number of the application or of the registration, 
shall, if so requested, give such infonna tion without delay. Where it is not 
expressly stated that registration has been applied for or granted, but the 
circumstances are such as to bring about the belief that this is the case, 
information shall, if requested, be given without delay as to \vhether registration 
has been applied for or granted. 
Chapter VII. Responsibility and Obligation to Provide Compensation 
Section 35 
Anyone who infringes the right to a design may be restrained by the Court from 
continuing or repeating such act. 
Where the infringement of a design ,vas intentional he shall, unless the act is 
punishable as a crime against an industrial property right under Section 2 of 
Chapter 49 of the Criminal Code, be liable to a fine for violation of the right to a 
design. 
Prosecution for the violation of the right to a design may be instituted by the 
Public Prosecutor only if the aggrieved person brings a legal action based on the 
violation. 
Section 36 
Anyone who intentionally or through negligence infringes the right to a design 
shall pay reasonable compensa tion for the use of the design, as well as 
compensation for the further damage caused by the infringement. If the 
negligence was minimal, the amount of compensation may be reduced. 
Anyone who infringes the right to a design without intention or negligence shall 
pay compensation for the use of the design, in so far as such compensation may 
be found reasonable. 
Proceedings for compensation on the grounds of infringement of the right to a 
design shall be instituted within five years from the time when the damage was 
caused, failing \vhich the right to compensation will be forfeited. 
Section 37 
If so requested by a person whose right to a design has been infringed, the Court 
may order, on the basis of what is reasonable for preventing continued 
infringement, an article that has been 111ade in or ilnported into this country in 
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canstitute infringement af the right to. a design, to. be altered in a certain way ar to. 
be depasited in safe custady far the remainder af the periad af pratection, or to be 
destroyed or, where the article has been illegally manufactured or imported, to be 
surrendered, against remuneratian, to the person whose right has been infringed. 
This provisian shall not apply to. a person \vho has acquired the goods or a special 
right to. them in gaod faith and who has not himself infringed the right to. the 
design. 
The gaads defined in subsection (1) may be canfiscated if it appears that an 
affense under Sectian 2 of Chapter 49 of the Criminal Code or Section 35 of this 
Act has been cOlnmitted. The provisions of the general la\v \vith respect to 
confiscation in criminal cases shall be applicable in such cases. 
Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), the Court may, where special 
reasons exist and if so requested, Inake an order giving the o\vner of the goods 
referred to in subsection (1) the right of disposal over the goods during the 
remainder of the period of protection or during part thereof in return for 
reasonable campensation and under other reasonable terms. 
Section 38 
If anyone without authorization uses in the course of trade a design that is the 
subject of an application for registration after the application documents have 
become available to the public, the provisions of this Act with respect to 
infringement of the right to a design shall apply correspondingly in so far as the 
application leads to registration. However, no penalty may be inflicted, and 
campensation for damage caused by use made before the application has been 
published in accordance with Section 18 ll1ay be detern1ined only in accordance 
with Section 36(2). 
The provisions of Section 36(3) shall not apply where the proceedings for 
compensation are instituted within one year after registration of the design. 
Section 39 
Where registration of a design has been cancelled as the result of a judgment 
having force of law, the penalties, compensation or protective measures provided 
for in Section 2 of Chapter 49 of the Crill1inal Code or Sections 35 to. 38 of this Act 
shall not be ordered. 
Where the defendant in an action for infringement of the right to a design claims 
that the registration of the design is invalid, the Court shall, if the defendant so 
requests, adjourn the' case pending a final examination of the question of 
cancellation of the registration. If no action to that effect has been instituted, the 
Court shall at the tin1e of adjournlnent prescribe a fixed period for the institution 
of such action. 
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A fine shall be imposed upon anyone who deliberately or through negligence, 
where such negligence is not Ininimal, fails to fulfill his obligations under 
Section 34. 
A fine shall be ilnposed on anyone who, in any case referred to in Section 34, 
gives wrong infonnation, if punishn1ent for the act is not provided for in the 
Criminal Code. 
Any person who is guilty of an offense referred to in this Section shall provide 
compensation for the damage caused. Where the negligence is minimal, the 
amount of con1pensation 111ay be reduced. 
Proceedings based on the offense defined in this Section may be instituted by the 
Public Prosecutor only if the aggrieved person brings a legal action based on the 
offense. 
Chapter VIII. Rules Concerning Legal Proceedings 
Section 41 
The registered owner of a design, or any person who may use the design by virtue 
of a license or a compulsory license, nlay bring an action to detennine whether he 
is protected by the registration against another person, where there is, to his 
detriment, any uncertainty as to the relationship. 
Under the same conditions, any person who carries on or intends to carry on a 
business activity Inay bring an action against the registered owner of a design to 
determine whether any obstacle to the activity is presented by the particular 
registration. 
Where it is claimed, in a case referred to in subsection (1), that the registration of a 
design is invalid, Section 39(2) shall apply correspondingly. 
Section 42 
Any person wishing to bring an action for cancellation of the registration of a 
design, for transfer of registration, or for the granting of a compulsory license 
shall notify the registering authority accordingly and inform everyone who 
according to the Register of Designs holds a license to use the design or a 
mortgage thereon. A licensee wishing to bring an action for infringement of the 
right to a design or for a determination referred to in Section 41(1) shall inform 
the registered owner of the design accordingly. 
The obliga tion to give notification in accordance with subsection (1) shall be 
deemed to have been fulfilled when notification by means of a registered postal 
communication has been sent to the address recorded in the Register. 
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or information given in accordance with subsection (1), the plaintiff shall be 
given time by the court for this to be done. If he fails to make use of this tilne, his 
action may not be taken up for examination. 
Section 43 
The City Court of Helsinki shall have jurisdiction in actions concerning a better 
right to a design, for cancellation of a registration, for transfer of an application or 
registration, for design infringement, for a compulsory license or the right 
referred to in Section 32(2), in criminal proceedings and c1ain1S for compensation 
under Section 40, and in actions for a determination in accordance with the 
provisions of Section 41. 
Section 44 
A copy of the final decision in a case referred to in Section 2 of Chapter 49 of the 
Criminal Code or in Section 16, 30, 31, 32, 35, 36, 37, 38 or 41 shall be sent to the 
registering authority. 
Chapter IX. Special Provisions 
Section 45 
The registered owner of a design who is not domiciled in Finland shall have an 
agent resident in Finland who shall be empowered to receive on the registered 
owner's behalf service of a writ, SUlnmons and other documents in cases and 
matters concerning the right to a design, except a summons for a criminal offense 
and a subpoena. Such agent shall be notified to the person responsible for the 
Register of Designs and shall be noted therein. 
Where the registered owner of a design does not have an agen t as provided for in 
subsection (I), service n1ay be made by mailing hiIn the doculnent that is to be 
served in a registered letter to his address entered in the Register of Designs. If no 
complete address is entered in the Register, service may be made by publication in 
the Official Finnish Gazette. Service shall be deelned to have been made when 
the provisions of this subsection have been fulfilled. 
Section 46 
The Government may, provided that reciprocity exists, decree that the rules set 
out in Section 12 or 45 shall not be applicable with respect to an applicant or 
registered owner of a design who is resident in a foreign country or who has in 
that country an agent entered in the Finnish Register having the powers referred 
to in those Sections. 
Section 47 
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registration of a design, the applicant shall pay an application fee or renewal fee 
and, if necessary, the following additional fees, namely a class fee for each class of 
articles beyond the first, a multiple registration fee for each design beyond the 
first, a storage fee for the storage of a model, a publication fee for publication of 
each representation beyond the first and a separate fee for other entries in the 
Register of Designs. An increased renewal fee shall be payable after the expiration 
of a current period of registration. 
The Government shall detern1ine the fees payable in accordance with the 
provisions of this Act. 
Section 48 
More detailed regulations for the implementation of this Act shall be notified in a 
decree by the Government. 
Section 49 
This Act shall enter into force on April 1, 1971. 