Patenting is part of business strategy in the technology industry, and in the wood products industry too. Its aim is to protect against imitators and to defend one's own market share – or to win new share.
A patent publication is both a legal document and a technical publication. A patent can be granted only for a solution that is new, inventive and industrially applicable. Industrial applicability means that the invention works as described and can be reproduced.
Solidiwood process technology has been protected by an FI patent applied for at the beginning of the millennium and by a European patent registered in nine countries. Even its maximum possible term has now expired.
The company later filed two FI patent applications and one European patent application containing solutions that supplement the technology. All three of these applications have been allowed to lapse.
The company has also filed two FI patent applications containing solutions for raising the degree of processing achieved with the technology. Both applications have been allowed to lapse.
Solidiwood process technology is protected by European, US and Canadian patents (2020).
Solidi Finland Oy has on its agenda the acquisition of new industrial property rights and, later, the standardisation of Solidiwood wood products.
Heikki Lahti of Patentia Oy has acted as Solidi Finland Oy's industrial property rights attorney since the beginning of the millennium.