Stu Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. As details of Conan O’Brien’s severance deal with NBC leak out, it seems that at least one thing won’t be travelling with Conan to wherever he ends up: His signature characters and comedy bits. NBC has reportedly staked out the IP rights in classic […]
Peter Waldkirch is a second year LL.B. student at the University of Ottawa. SciDev.net, a website providing “news, views and information about science, technology and the developing world” recently covered a move by Peru's National Institute of Culture to declare the techniques for farming a variety of giant white maize, paraqay sara in the Quechua […]
Ori Bergman is a J.D. candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is taking the Patent Law course. The Utility requirement for granting a patent obligates the inventor to disclose an invention that works as predicted. Whether it works or not is seen as a question of fact. In submitting a claim, it is known that the […]
Nathan Fan is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The debate on network neutrality between network providers and content providers saw a moment of consolidation when the internet’s big name adversaries, Google and Verizon, submitted a joint submission regarding their views of an “Open Internet” to the Federal Communications Commission on 14 January […]
Ankur Bhatt is a J.D. candidate (2011) at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Patent Law course. On November 23 of last year, the Federal Court of Canada released its decision in the case of Lundbeck v. ratiopharm, 2009 FC 1102 (“Lundbeck”), wherein a drug patent was considered to be invalid on the basis, inter […]
Brian Chau is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall. Special thanks to the panelists for contributing their perspectives and insight to the Osgoode community, and to Amanda Carpenter who has assisted me in writing this synopsis. THE EVENT On Wednesday January 27 2010, the IP club at Osgoode Hall Law School held a career panel […]
Amanda Branch is a J.D. Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, and is taking the Patent Law course. Clashes between large companies are hardly uncommon, particularly when the salient issue concerns valuable intellectual property. Recently, Nokia has filed a lawsuit in the US against Apple claiming 10 alleged patent infringements involving wireless data, speed coding, security […]
Professor Abraham Drassinower (University of Toronto) has a new paper available on SSRN, “Exceptions Properly So-Called". His paper is described below. The paper sets out to distinguish four kinds of copyright limitations, of which only one can be regarded as a true exception. There are (a) subject matter limitations, (b) scope limitations, (c) miscellaneous exceptions, […]
Brandon Evenson is a 2010 JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Over the last two months, Professor Jim Gibson from the University of Richmond School of Law, has written two articles identifying how Copyright law has for many centuries, and to this day, been used as a tool to censor works.
Billy Barnes is a JD candidate at the University of Toronto. MyTVR, a new remote storage digital video recorder (RS-DVR) service has recently launched in Australia. The service allows paying customers to record TV shows and stream them to their PC or mobile phone. It sounds great, but the legality of the service is far […]