The doctoral dissertation under the title Protection of the Service Concept and Intellectual Property Rights The service product and unfair imitation belongs to the field of intellectual property law. The dissertation consists of three parts and seven chapters. Firstly, the study focuses on whether the supplementary protection of achievement in relation to a service concept, in particular, a service product granted on the basis of article 1.1 under the Finnish Unfair Business Practices Act (SopMenL 1§ 1 mom.), can be justified and legitimized. Secondly, the study systemizes the general and specific criteria necessary for the supplementary protection of achievement under special circumstances and in a situation beyond IPR laws as w...