OPK, Ursula Ranin, and Ilkka Rahnasto ...
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<< Nokia's dreams that the Judicial system will rescue there sorry a--es may come from the fact that the new CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo lives with the former Nokia Vice President, General Counsel in house law department. >>
Exciting relationship. One lawyer with an LL.M. from the University of Helsinki, who joined Nokia as Corporate Counsel in 1980 and became Vice President of their legal department in 1987, living with another lawyer the same age who joined the Nokia legal department in 1984 and held the position of Vice President and General Counsel from 1994 to 2005 acting as the secretary of the Board of Directors from 1996 to 2005. In 2006, after departing Nokia, she became a Director at UPM Kymmeme Corporation and joined the board of Finnair Oyj.
Pleased to note that the article you linked is dated September 5, 2005 shortly after Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo (OPK) was appointed to succeed Jorma Ollila as CEO in June 2005.
The author of Nokia's IP strategy, however, is Ilkka Rahnasto, LL.M. (Georgetown Law), LL.D (University of Helsinki) ...
... who has been Nokia's VP for IPR for most, if not all, of this decade.
Nokia's current IPR strategy and licensing strategy which is decidedly more offensive and less defensive than it formerly was, dates back to 2002 according to OPK who at that time was on his 2nd tour as Nokia CFO.
Some insight into Nokia's current IPR strategy can be gleaned from this book by Ilkka Rahnasto published in 2003 ...
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