Patent publications are not given as loans outside the office, but clients can themselves take copies of them with the copiers at the clients' disposal. The reading room is also a place for studying Finnish patent applications that have become available to the public. Copies from publications in the library's own collections are normally delivered to clients in a couple of days. Copies can also be sent as express delivery by fax or by mail on the same day the order is received. Library and Information Service unit provides expert service in monitoring of all kinds of patent and international trademark information.
Information services are subject to charge .
A certain internationally registered word mark, status of trademark and e.g. trademark applications of an applicant or an owner in certain countries can be checked in international trademark databases. Information Services, especially patent searches, current awarness and international trademark searches Information Specialist Veli-Pekka Hyttinen, tel. Information Service Assistant Kristiina Lahtela, tel.