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Mikko Välimäki
Ph.D., LL.M.
Adjunct Professor, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Research Fellow, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy
I am also affiliated with Turre Legal, Tuxera, and Kutalab.

Office address: Tekniikantie 14, 4th floor (Innopoli 2)
Postal address: P.O.Box 9210, FI-02015 Espoo, Finland
Phone: +358 50 598 0498 (mobile)
Email: firstname.lastname at hut.fi

Short bio, research interests, Curriculum Vitae (resume), full-size picture.

Blog

Opinions

Click here to read my published non-academic commentary on actual topics.

Teaching

Presentations

• Service Provider's Liability for User Collaboration, University of Eastern Piedmont, Alessandria, 4.10.2008
• National IPR Strategies in Context, Symposium on IPRs & Corporate Social Responsibility, Beijing, 25.9.2008
• "Reasonable" licensing terms in patented standards, University of Bologna, 16.5.2008
• University inventions in Europe and open licensing initiatives, University of Leuven, 20.10.2007
• DRM in Europe - Some Outstanding Issues, Chicago-Kent Law School, 8.10.2007
• Is patent law compatible with open source innovation?, University of Turku, 24.5.2007
• Who controls software development?, Univers Lliure workshop, Barcelona, 30.11.2006
• How I stopped worrying and learned to love Copyright, presented at Aula event 5.6.2006 (note: 11MB file)

Projects

• Patents and Antitrust in Standards (2008-)
• Managing OSS as an Integrated Part of Business (2005-2007)
• Risks and Prospects in Open Source (2004-2005)
• MobileIPR (2000-2003)

Docs

Publications

Books

• Mikko Välimäki: Oikeudet tietokoneohjelmistoihin (In Finnish, Rights to computer programs), 2nd edition, Talentum, 2009 (first edition, now out-of-date, downloadable)
  
• Niklas Bruun - Mikko Välimäki: Korkeakoulukeksinnöt (In Finnish, University inventions), Publications of IPR University Center, 2007.
  
• Herkko Hietanen - Ville Oksanen - Mikko Välimäki: Community Created Content - Law, Business and Policy, Turre Publishing, 2007
  
• Mikko Välimäki: The Rise of Open Source Licensing. A Challenge to the Use of Intellectual Property in the Software Industry, Turre Publishing, 2005. (Also translated into Catalan)
  

• Mikko Välimäki: Two types of openness in information technology standards and competition policy, in Open standards and antitrust, Concurrences, N° 1-2010 (submitted version downloadable)
  
• Mikko Välimäki: Governmental Intellectual Property Strategies -- from Rights-Based to Market-Based Approach, Journal of Law and Policy in China 2/2009 (submitted version downloadable)
  
• Mikko Välimäki: Legal limits of technological protection measures in Europe -- open questions based on the ongoing Finnish CSS cases, SCRIPTed 3/2009.
• Mikko Välimäki: A flexible approach to RAND licensing, European Competition Law Review 12/2008, pp. 686-691 (submitted version downloadable)
  
• Mikko Välimäki - Ville Oksanen: Tietokonelaitteiston ja sen sisältämän tiedon takavarikosta rikosasioissa. (In Finnish, On the Seizure of Computer Equipment and its Contents in Criminal Procedure), Defensor Legis 2/2008, pp. 219-227 (submitted version downloadable)
  
• Mikko Välimäki: Uusi ryhmäkannelaki - eräs lainsäädäntöpoliittinen seikkailu. (In Finnish, New Law on Class Actions in Finland - a Legislative Adventure), Lakimies 1/2008 (Volume 106, Issue 1), pp. 3-19 (submitted version downloadable)
  
• Ville Oksanen - Mikko Välimäki: Theory of Deterrence and Individual Behaviour - Can Lawsuits Control File Sharing on the Internet? Review of Law & Economics 3/2007 (Volume 3, Issue 3) (submitted version downloadable)
  
• Bo-Christer Björk - Mikko Välimäki (eds.): Wikipedia - monta näkökulmaa avoimeen tietosanakirjaan. (In Finnish, Wikipedia - many perspectives on the open encyclopedia). Tieteessä Tapahtuu 7/2007 pp. 7-30.
• Mikko Välimäki: Keep on hacking: a Finnish court says technological measures are no longer "effective" when circumventing applications are widely available on the Internet SCRIPT-ed - A Journal of Law and Technology 2/2007 (Volume 4, Issue 2), pp. 227-232.
  
• Mikko Välimäki - Ville Oksanen: DRM Interoperability and Intellectual Property Policy in Europe, European Intellectual Property Review 11/2006, (Volume 26, Issue 11), pp. 562-568 (submitted version downloadable)
  
• Ville Oksanen - Mikko Välimäki: Free Software and Copyright Enforcement - A Tool for Global Copyright Policy? Knowledge, Technology & Policy Winter 2006 (Volume 18, Issue 4), pp. 101-112. (submitted version downloadable)
  
• Mikko Välimäki: Copyleft Licensing and EC Competition Law, European Competition Law Review 3/2006 (Volume 27, Issue 3), pp. 130-136 (submitted version downloadable)
  
• Mikko Välimäki - Ville Oksanen: The Impact of Free and Open Source Licensing on Operating System Software Markets, Telematics and Informatics 1-2/2005 (Volume 22, Issues 1-2), pp. 97-110 (submitted version downloadable)
  
• Mikko Välimäki: A Practical Approach to the Problem of Open Source and Software Patents, European Intellectual Property Review 12/2004 (Volume 26, Issue 12), pp. 523-527 (submitted version downloadable)
  
• Mikko Välimäki: Dual Licensing in Open Source Software Industry, Systemes dŽInformation et Management, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 63-75, 2003 (submitted version downloadable)
  

Drafts and ideas

Other stuff

My personal website can be found at www.valimaki.com. Check it out to find out about my other interests ranging from the art of making computer games to long-distance running.