Ivy Tsui is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. With a backlog of more than one million patent applications at the USPTO, the U.S. Congress has been pushing to reform the patent system since 2005. On February 3rd, 2011, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the Patent Reform Act of 2011 by a […]
Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. A new member to the blogosphere, law.arts.culture, has been launched by Professor Kate Sutherland, a writer and Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School.
Sangeetha Punniyamoorthy and Thomas Kurys are lawyers at Dimock Stratton LLP, and both are Osgoode alumni. The 3rd annual Harold G. Fox Moot took place this past weekend (February 18-19, 2011) at the Federal Court in downtown Toronto. This year’s moot problem dealt with the common law tort of passing off and the issue of […]
Leslie Chong is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Many academics have commented on the potential impacts of the Federal Court's decision in Amazon.com on patent law in Canada. Reshika Dhir and Nassim Nasser, 2011 JD candidates at Osgoode Hall Law School, give their insights on the court’s reasonings in a recent issue of […]
Marisa Lau is a first year JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and currently enrolled in the course Law & Social Change: Law & Music, in Winter 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. In the past few years, Nokia’s global […]
Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The United Kingdom’s coalition government has asked telecommunications regulator Ofcom to review certain parts of the Digital Economy Act 2010 which would force ISPs to block access to websites that enable copyright infringement.
Mark Kohras is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Federal Cabinet is taking an active interest in the affairs of the CRTC recently, as evidenced by the Industry Minister’s stance on the usage-based billing decision. Days ago, the Federal Court ruled that the government may have overstepped its authority to overturn such […]
Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. The Legislative Committee on Bill C-32 is continuing to hear from stakeholders regarding the proposed Copyright Modernization Act. Most recently, the Committee heard from the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA), the Professional Writers Association of Canada (PWAC), la Société québécoise de gestion collective des droits de reproduction […]
IP Osgoode wishes the best of luck to the Osgoode team for the 3rd Annual Harold G. Fox Moot (2011 Canadian IP Moot) : Anna Koppelman, Devin Doyle, Jonathan Park, Kimberly Lawton, and Leanna Yue. Many thanks to their coaches, Casey Chisick, Shane Hardy, and Timothy Pinos from Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP.
Matt Lonsdale is a JD candidate at Dalhousie University. There has been heated debate in Canada regarding technological protection measures (TPMs), particularly against the backdrop of the amendments to the Copyright Act proposed by Bill C-32. At issue in many of these discussions is the extent to which circumventing TPMs should be illegal; for instance, […]