Mikko Välimäki is an adjunct professor at Aalto University (School of Science and Technology), Finland, where he teaches technology and intellectual property law, and CEO of Tuxera Inc., a software company. Mr. Välimäki is the author of four books on intellectual property. He has also worked to launch start-ups such as Kutalab Ltd, the developer of DjOnline and technology law firm Turre Legal, which he co-founded in 2000. In the past, mr. Välimäki has consulted technology companies and litigated precedent-setting cases in Finnish courts ranging from technological protection measures (DRM) to file sharing services and electronic voting systems. He also co-founded Electronic Frontier Finland and was its first chairman in 2001-2003. Mikko Välimäki holds an LL.M from University of Helsinki (1999) and a Ph.D. from Helsinki University of Technology (2005).
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Contributors to this thematic study were asked to answer a question that seems simple on the surface : Do open standards promote competition ? However, this question raises a tricky and preliminary problem : how to define an “open standard” ? Written by eminent specialists, this set of articles (...)
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