Office Address
The Estonian Patent Office Toompuiestee 7 15041 Tallinn ESTONIA |
For enquiries or comments
Receiving Department is opened 9.00 – 15.30 Mon – Fri (with the exception of National holidays)
Phone : +372 627 7911
Fax : +372 627 7912
Website: www.epa.ee
Filing applications, fees and forms e-mail: Vastuvoett@epa.ee
Information Department e-mail: info@epa.ee
Consultations for small entrepreneurs e-mail: helpdesk@epa.ee
Estonian Intellectual Propery and Technology Transfer Centre
Estonian Intellectual Propery and Technology Transfer Centre Teaduspargi 8,12618 Tallinn, Estonia |
The Centre is opened 9.00 – 17.00 Mon – Thu, 9.00 – 16.00 Fri (with the exception of National holidays)
Phone: +372 641 1250
E-mail: info@eitk.ee
Website: www.eitk.ee
Free services
The patent office provides free access to the Estonian Patents, Trademarks, Designs and Geographical Indications databases. Access to these databases can be found at www.epa.ee
Currently the Estonian Patent Office publishes bulletins and other publications also in electronic form – see at www.epa.ee.
Free consultations via telephone for small entrepreneurs on how to prepare applications to the Estonian Patent Office:
- Patents and utility models +372 627 7910
- Trademarks +372 627 7937
- Industrial designs +372 627 7926
Estonian Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Centre (EIPTTC) offers consultancy services in the areas of patents, trademarks, designs and copyright. EIPTTC’s library is a specialist resource within intellectual property rights. It is a channel for the general public finding the information for the studies and research, or making own idea a reality.
Contact Details
Estonian Intellectual Propery and Technology Transfer Centre Teaduspargi 8 Tallinn 12618 |
Chargeable services:
- For Registry Information Services please write an e-mail to info@epa.ee or phone +372 627 7908 or send fax to +372 627 7912, payment details at www.epa.ee.
- For other Search Services please write an e-mail to info@eitk.ee or phone +372 641 1250, payment details at Price List.
| SERVICE | price (EUR ) |
| Paper copies (per A4 page) | 0.20 |
| Paper copies (per A3 page) | 0.30 |
| Printout or scanning (per A4 page) | 0.20 |
| Color printouts (per A4 page) | 0.40 |
| Microfilm or microfiche copy to A4 paper (per A4 page) | 0.40 |
| Searches (cost will be arranged based on negotiations) | 30.00 per hour |
Find below a list of IP actors available in this country. They are classified along the following categories :
| Name | Region | Website | |
| Continous Training/Education | Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications | Harjumaa | mkm.ee |
| Name | Region | Website | |
| Initial | Patent Office | Harjumaa | epa.ee/client/default.asp?wa_id=887&wa_object_id=1&wa_id_key= |
| Patent Office | Harjumaa | epa.ee/client/default.asp?wa_id=887&wa_object_id=1&wa_id_key= | |
| Patent Office | Harjumaa | epa.ee/client/default.asp?wa_id=887&wa_object_id=1&wa_id_key= | |
| Patent Library | Harjumaa | patentlib.ee/index.php?id=1335 |
| Name | Region | Website | |
| National IP bodies | Patent Office | Harjumaa | epa.ee |
| Patent Library | Harjumaa | www.eitk.ee | |
| Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications | Harjumaa | mkm.ee | |
| Board of Industrial Property Apellations | Harjumaa | mkm.ee/apellatsioon | |
| Plant Production Inspectorate | Harjumaa | plant.agri.ee/ | |
| Ministry of Culture | Harjumaa | www.kul.ee/ |
| Name | Region | Website | |
| IP agents (patent, trademark…) (eventually the professional association) | Official Register of Patent Attorneys | Harjumaa | epa.ee/client/default.asp?wa_id=427&wa_object_id=1&wa_id_key= |
| Association of Estonian Patent Attorneys | Tartumaa | epvs.ee |
- IP lawyers (non-exhaustive list) (eventually the professional association) ( 1 contact(s) available)
| Name | Region | Website | |
| IP lawyers (non-exhaustive list) (eventually the professional association) | Advocacy | Harjumaa | advokatuur.ee |
| Name | Region | Website | |
| Guidance for financial assistance | Enterprise Estonia | Harjumaa | eas.ee |
| Enterprise Estonia – County Development Centres | see the link | arenduskeskused.ee/ | |
| Enterprise Estonia – Development of Technology development Centres | Harjumaa | eas.ee/?id=3047 | |
| Enterprise Estonia – Database of all open support measures | Harjumaa | eas.ee/et/eas/hea-teada/ | |
| KREDEX – Estonian Credit and Export Guarantee Fund | Harjumaa | kredex.ee | |
| Estonian Development Fund | Harjumaa | arengufond.ee | |
| Estonian Development Fund – links to venture capital providers | Harjumaa | arengufond.ee/eng/VC/links/ |
| Name | Region | Website | |
| Guidance for valorisation (licencing, sale or any other form of IP transfer) | Official Register of Patent Attorneys | Harjumaa | epa.ee/client/default.asp?wa_id=493&wa_object_id=1&wa_id_key= |
| Name | Region | Website | |
| Organisations combating IP counterfeiting | Police | Harjumaa | politsei.ee |
| Courts and Judges | Harjumaa | kohus.ee/?set_lang_id=2 | |
| Tax and Customs Board | Harjumaa | emta.ee/?lang=en |
| Name | Region | Website | |
| Other Database of business consultants (compiling business plans, strategy etc) | Enterprise Estonia – Database of Business Consultants | see the link | eas.ee/index.php?option=com_consultants&view=list&Itemid=221&Itemid=221 |
| Support Service name | Information |
|---|---|
| Awareness | Our patent office and patent information centre are active in spreading awareness of the whole system of intellectual property as widely as possible while also publicising details of services. This information is primarily aimed at Estonian business and commerce, but is also of value to the academic community or to the lone inventor, and can be used both at home and abroad. |
| Raising Awareness of IP | We aim to promote knowledge of and demand for intellectual property rights though our work with companies, business intermediaries, schools and higher education institutions: our commercial search and advisory activities: and directly to users through seminars, our central enquiry unit and various websites. For any further information please contact:
|
| Government Funding | For all information about government funding and schemes to support innovation Estonia has a national business support agency Enterprise Estonia – see at www.eas.ee/. Everybody has access to the special database created on funding resources in Estonia – see at easbaas.bda.ee (in Estonian only). |
| IP Clinics | Estonian patent attorneys give some free advice in early stages. List of certified patent attorneys oan be found at: |
| Enforcement | comment |
|---|---|
| Enforcing IP Rights | If your intellectual property rights are intentionally infringed on a commercial scale, there may be the possibility of prosecuting that person. If you do not manage to solve the dispute directly with this person, it is better to contact an attorney. In case of infringement industrial property rights it is advisable to contact a registered patent attorneys – see the list at www.epa.ee. Please notice that patent attorneys have field of activity (patents and utility models or trademarks and designs). Any infringement of IP right-holders’ exclusive rights can be, in principle, considered as criminal offence. Criminal proceedings may be initiated either ex officio (e.g by the police) or on the basis of the right holder’s application. Punishments depend on a scale of the offence. In cases where an infringement can be considered insignificant, the authorities may choose not to initiate (or terminate) criminal proceedings. However, the right-holder is always entitled to initiate civil proceedings (request of termination the infringement, compensation of damages, etc.). In addition, where goods infringing an IP right are being imported into Estonia from a third country (i.e. a country outside the European Economic Area), it may be possible to ask customs authorities to seize the illegal goods. The customs authorities may also impose fines on importers who have imported infringing goods to the country. |
| Through the Board of IP Appeals | If you are not satisfied with a decision of the Estonian Patent Office (even being a third party), you can make the appeal at a cost of 2500 EEK (about 160 €). The Board of Industrial Property Appeals (BoA) works at the Ministry of Economics and Communication – see their website (in Estonian only). The BoA resolves disputes concerning industrial property objects (trade marks, patents, etc.). The BoA has no competence to solve disputes concerning the use of industrial property objects. Those disputes belong to the competence of civil courts. |
| Through the Copyright Committee | The Copyright Committee is an expert committee that inter alia resolves, at the request of the parties, disputes related to copyright and related rights by way of conciliation of the parties. In conciliation proceedings, the committee shall make a proposal to the parties to resolve the dispute and enter into an agreement. The parties may, within three months as of the receipt of the proposal, present their positions expressing consent or opposition to the content of the proposal. Failure to present a position shall be considered as consent to the proposal. If the parties consent to the proposal, the committee shall approve the agreement and notify the parties thereof in writing. Performance of an agreement approved by the committee is mandatory to the parties and it may be submitted to a bailiff for enforcement pursuant to the procedure provided by the Code of Enforcement Procedure. If the parties fail to consent to the proposal, the applicant withdraws the application or the other party refuses to participate in the conciliation proceedings, the committee shall state the failure to reach an agreement and shall notify the parties thereof in writing. |
| Through National Courts | The list of courts and other relevant information can be found at the website of the Estonian Supreme Court, which is located in Tartu. The database of the Estonian judgement roll is available at www.riigiteataja.ee/ |
As Estonian gazettes do not have fixed price (i.e. it varies from issue to issue) and they can be downloaded from Internet – see official publications – please contact Estonian Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Centre (phone +372 6411 250, e-mail info@eitk.ee) to get a paper copy of our gazettes (each number costs about 15 EUR + postage costs).
If you need paper copies of patent applications or utility models or some pages of a gazette by ordinary mail or fax – extra postage costs will be added to the price and the price depends on the carrier of the original document. See the following table:
| SERVICE | price (EUR ) |
| Paper copies (per A4 page) | 0.20 |
| Paper copies (per A3 page) | 0.30 |
| Printout or scanning (per A4 page) | 0.20 |
| Color printouts (per A4 page) | 0.40 |
| Microfilm or microfiche copy to A4 paper (per A4 page) | 0.40 |