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Mikko Välimäki
Ph.D., LL.M.
Research Fellow, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration (Hanken)
Adjunct Professor, Helsinki University of Technology

Office address: Arkadiagatan 22, 5th floor (Handelsrätt)
Postal address: P.O.Box 479, FI-00101 Helsinki, Finland
Phone: +358 50 598 0498 (mobile) +358 9 431 33421 (office)
Email: lastname at hanken.fi

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

Blog

Opinions

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

Teaching

• Advanced Intellectual Property Law, fall 2007
• See also Master's Program in Intellectual Property Law (open to students from any university)

• Advanced Computer Law, spring 2008
  
• Tietotekniikkaoikeus, fall 2007 (Computer Law, lectured in Finnish)
  

• Economics and Management of Intellectual Property, spring 2008
  (officially titled "Immaterial Property Rights", together with Tuomas Takalo, the main instructor)

Presentations

• Slides: "Reasonable" licensing terms in patented standards, University of Bologna, 16.5.2008
• Slides: University inventions in Europe and open licensing initiatives, University of Leuven, 20.10.2007
• Slides: Is patent law compatible with open source innovation?, 24.5.2007
• Slides: Who controls software development?, Univers Lliure workshop, Barcelona, 30.11.2006
• Slides: How I stopped worrying and learned to love Copyright, presented at Aula event 5.6.2006 (note: 11MB file)

Projects

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

Docs

Publications

Books

• 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: Oikeudet tietokoneohjelmistoihin ja niiden lisensointi (In Finnish, Rights to computer programs and their licensing), Turre Publishing, 2006
  
• 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 - 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)
  

Below you can find some random draft articles and ideas about possible future topics. If you have interest or insight into these issues, please drop a line and let's see where it all lands.

• A flexible approach to RAND licensing
• Is the Existence of Intellectual Property a Valid Anti-Trust Excuse? This one would criticize the assumption in current competition law policy that the holding of IPRs is never anti-competitive as such and only in some rare circumstances the use of (or the refusal to use) IPRs can be held anti-competitive. Would build on the Microsoft case.
  
• Interoperability and Patent Law. One obvious article topic, about the endless discussion on patents in standards etc.
  
• Interoperability and Trademark Law. Another article topic, extending the discussion to trademarks.
  

• Introducing Class Actions in Finland - Lawmaking Without Economic Analysis. A comparative take on the past, present and future of class action lawsuits in Finland in a European context.
• Data Retention and the Future of Privacy in Europe. This would discuss data retention from civil society's perspective.
  

• Mapping the Public Domain. This would aim at a broad definition of the public domain and suggest ways to measure its size and relevance.
  
• Highway to Internet Censorship in Europe. A documentation of recent events and trends with some analysis...
  
• Social Software and Approriability. Would discuss how social software changes the appropriabiltiy behavior of cultural content creators, especially musicians.
  
• University Inventions and Open Source. A potential spin-off article from the book. Would discuss how GPL-style anti-patent provisions - and non-patentable technology in general - can be combined with recent laws and standard research agreements pushing for more patents.
  
• Commercial Use in Copyright Law. A spin-off article from the open content book. Can one effectively use "non-commercial" license provisions for business purposes.
• Civil and Criminal Liability for Copyright Infringement in Nordic Countries. Would discuss European (especially Finnish and other Nordic countries) approach on secondary copyright liability.
  
• A Modern Introduction to Intellectual Property Law. This would be a text book from an European perspective with special emphasis on information technology.
  
• Comparative Intellectual Property Law. A textbook treatise that would compare the details of US and European intellectual property laws.
  
• Scope of IPRs ex ante. Would compare originality doctrine (copyright), novelty doctrine (patent), and distinctiveness doctrine (trademark).
  
• Scope of IPRs ex post. Would compare similarity doctrine (copyright), equivalence doctrine (patent), and confusion doctrine (trademark).
  
• Shared Ownership of IPRs. What the title suggests...
  
• The Cultural History of Copyright. This one would analyze and compare the evolution of copyright systems in Soviet Union (Russia), China, United States and Europe (France).
  
• A History of Copyright in Finland. This would be a short book / lengthy article on the history of copyright law and legal policy in Finland.
  

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.