Students reviewed open source licenses - with a patent focus

Co-operation of Universities and a Law Firm

A collection of analyses of open source licenses was made as a part of final studies of law students in Helsinki University, Swedish School of Economics in Helsinki, University of Turku and IPR University Center. The analyses review licenses from the perspective of business use with a focus on patent terms.

The project was carried out as a group work lead by a law firm expert. The collections of analyses (in Finnish only) can be freely downloaded from os.hhpartners.fi. The law firm partner in the project was HH Partners, Attorneys-at-law Ltd.

Authors of the publication are Susanna Halinen, Juha-Pekka Hautamäki and Juuso Sillanpää. The work was lead by Martin von Willebrand.

The publication (in Finnish only) can be accessed from http://os.hhpartners.fi/ (direct link: http://os.hhpartners.fi/lisenssien-analyysihankkeen-julkaisu-2009-t18.html)

Details:

HH Partners, Attorneys-at-law Ltd

Attorney Martin von Willebrand

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HH Partners is a Finnish business law firm with technology and intellectual property as focus areas. The firm and its lawyers are widely recommended in international publications reviewing law firms. According to Chambers Europe 2009:

“Market sources praise this firm for its proficiency in a broad variety of matters, from patent litigation, trade mark and domain name matters to copyright issues.”

“Although best known for its IP practice, this firm is also highly thought of for its small yet strong IT and telecoms practice, which assists a number of domestic and international IT and telecoms companies with a wide range of TMT matters.”