About HH Partners
HH Partners is a Finnish business law firm with technology and IP matters as one of its focus areas. They do for example advise clients in all type of technology and outsourcing contracts and transactions; software licensing; and technology and IP litigation, such as project disputes, patent and copyright litigation. According to Chambers Europe (2009), regarding Finnish law firms: "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.”
As to open source assignments, they have advised clients in using open source; publishing open source; open source strategies, policies and procedures; and open source compliance. HH Partners advised MySQL AB in its preparation for IPO or eventual trade sale as regards corporate, intellectual property and employment matters (Sun Microsystems purchased MySQL in early 2008). HH Partners is also the inventor, one of the founders and current service provider of Validos – a collaborative approach for companies to diligently validate free and open source packages.
HH Partners at FOSSBazaar
HH Partners has joined FOSSBazaar in order to be able share best practices and participate in the development of open source governance. We see that FOSSBazaar is the most prominent international forum for sharing information on open source governance, an area to which we wish to contribute, and has the ability to support and strengthen the international it and open source ecosystem, thus contributing to the welfare of the world.