Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Gowlings Best Blog in IP Law and Technology Prize (the “Gowlings IPilogue Prize”) was pioneered in my Intellectual Property class in the Fall 2007 term and has been generously sponsored each year since then by […]
Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. Summer is here and Canada Day is fast-approaching. This means it’s also time to prepare your submissions to Canada’s IP Writing Challenge! The submission deadline is Friday, July 1, 2011 (or Canada Day, by way of […]
Michael Gilburt is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The United Nations has released a report that examines the relationship between Internet access and the right to free expression under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
Matt Lonsdale is a graduate of the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. A recent report claims that in 2009, 59% of the intellectual property rights in the work product of contractors hired by Canadian government agencies were retained by the agencies themselves. This is a departure from the goals of a government policy […]
Amelia Manera is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On June 2, 2011, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application made by Apple for infrared technology that would allow the disablement of picture and video recordings taken by devices such as the iPhone.
Taylor Vanderhelm is a JD candidate at the University of Alberta. Less than a month after announcing its foray into online movie rentals, Google’s YouTube has made another significant announcement by offering users the ability to license their work using Creative Commons. Google is heralding the move as a way to foster creativity and sharing […]
Danny Titolo is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. An en banc US Federal Circuit court recently delivered its opinion on inequitable conduct in Therasense, Inc. v Becton, Dickinson & Co. The majority opinion raised the standard for demonstrating an inequitable conduct defence. The new standard now requires an intention to deceive and that […]
Jennifer Jenson is Associate Professor of Pedagogy and Technology in the Faculty of Education at York University. Suzanne de Castell is the Professor of Curriculum and Instruction in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University and a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Education, York University. Previously viewed as a hobby only pursued by, […]
Renée Brosseau and Andrea Rush are partners at Heenan Blaikie LLP and were counsel for GeoDigital International Inc. in the appeal in Canrock Ventures LLC v. Ambercore Software Inc. and Terrapoint Canada (2008) Inc. The sale of a business in the context of a receivership occurs on an “as is where is” basis. The would-be purchaser of […]
Danny Titolo is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. “Informing”, “well written”, “insight[ful]”, and “important contribution” (p. 93) are just a few of the words used by Professor Teresa Scassa, Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Vice-Dean Research at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, in her recent review of Copyright, […]