Riikka Palmos
Key details
- Job title: Deputy Managing Director, Senior Partner and Head of the Trademark Department
- Firm: Papula-Nevinpat
- Jurisdiction: Finland
Riikka Palmos has built a 30-year career advising clients across a wide range of industries, and is one of the most influential practitioners in intellectual property law in Finland, Europe, and the Eurasian region.
Her practice spans all strategic and practical aspects of trademark protection, from legislative interpretation and prosecution to enforcement and litigation before patent offices and courts.
She has developed deep expertise in trademark strategies, licensing and assignment agreements, protection of well-known marks, and the management of international portfolios across the EU, Finland, Russia, the CIS countries, and the jurisdictions covered by the Eurasian trademark system.
In recent years, she has closely monitored the rapidly evolving IP landscape in Russia and Ukraine throughout the ongoing conflict, analysing legislative and market-driven developments and communicating key changes to foreign IP rights owners and the broader European IP community.
A prolific contributor to global IP discourse, Palmos has published extensively in leading IP journals including World Intellectual Property Review.
Her writing covers trademark strategy, legislative developments, and cross-border enforcement, with particular focus on the Eurasian region, including analyses of high-profile disputes such as the Starbucks v Stars Coffee litigation before the Russian IP Court. She is also a sought-after speaker at Finnish and international events, including the WIPR North America Trademark Conference, International Trademark Association (INTA) Table Topics, the IPR Nordic Forum, and the Winter IP Conference.
Palmos is actively engaged in the international IP community, serving as a member of ECTA’s International Trade Committee and as Finland’s representative on the ECTA Supervisory Board. She is a board member of EastCham Finland, an international chamber of commerce supporting Finnish companies operating across Ukraine, Central Asia, the South Caucasus, and other Eurasian markets.
She has previously served on INTA’s Enforcement Committee and Trade Mark Office Practices Committee.
