In this episode produced by the team at University of Lapland, led by Rosa-Maria Ballardini, we discuss current legal challenges related to plastics with two guests: Dr. Anna Haapanen, partner and Head of Technology at Dittmar & Indrenius Attorneys and Associate Oskari Paasikivi also at Dittmar & Indrenius. Anna and Oskari advise clients on a broad variety of assignments concerning new technologies and related regulatory and intellectual property issues and have recent experience on advising their clients on the development, production and marketing of biobased plastics and other solutions in the circular economy. In this episode, they shed light from the legal perspective on some of these challenges, potential solutions and difficulties that remain. In particular, we discuss what plastics are understood to be in legislation pertaining to plastics (e.g. the Single-Use Plastics Directive), how the obligations imposed in this legislation can be managed in complex supply chains and what kinds of intellectual property issues arise in this context and how they can be solved.

GUESTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

JUHA VESALA is university lecturer at the University of Lapland. In the Valubiomat project, he focuses on sustainability issues in the fields of competition law and intellectual property, particularly those concerning circular plastics ecosystems.

ANNA HAAPANEN is Partner and Head of Technology at Dittmar & Indrenius, and advices clients with a broad range of technology intensive intellectual property right matters, with a particular focus on complex IP related agreements and commercial arrangements, including technology transactions and regulatory aspects of new technologies.

OSKARI PAASIKIVI is an Associate at Dittmar & Indrenius and advises clients in questions surrounding data protection, technology as well as consumer and marketing law, as well as various regulatory issues surrounding innovative products. He also has experience in the field of M&A, with a particular focus on technology focused transactions.

For a further take on European plastics legislation, you can find Anna and Oskari’s recent article ‘Summer ’21 marks the beginning of the end for single-use plastics in Europe’ on Dittmar & Indrenius' website at https://www.dittmar.fi/insight/summer-21-marks-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-single-use-plastics-in-europe/

ROSA MARIA BALLARDINI is professor of intellectual property law at the University of Lapland. She leads the team that is focussing on fostering resource wisdom though legislative and policy actions.

The Talking Plastics Podcast is brought to you by Valuebiomat, to be found as @valuebiomat on Twitter, Valuebiomat on Youtube and on valuebiomat.fi. Valuebiomat is funded by the Strategic research Council (SRC) established within the Academy of Finland. You can find the podcast at @TalkingPlastics on Twitter and can contact us at TalkingPlasticsPodcast@gmail.com.

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