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Entrepreneurs create ideas that turn into worldwide sell-out products. Whichever country has the talent to conceive of these products will have a thriving economy. For these reasons, various governments are developing programs to attract entrepreneurial talent to their country. It is, therefore, not surprising that both the Canadian and American governments have announced their intentions […]
Japanese scientists report they have, for the first time, grown mammalian eggs from stem cells and that these artificially created eggs were used to produce healthy offsprings. This advancement is being called the beginning of the end of the long search for the holy-grail of reproductive biology.
While “going viral” is a phrase more likely to be used in reference to musicians such as PSY (of "Gangnam Style" fame), a painting has received world-wide notoriety due to a bungled restoration job at the hands of a senior citizen.
The institution of a controversial new Cybercrime Prevention Act in the Philippines may leave plagiarists subject to criminal sanctions. The penalty for the plagiarism depends on the number of prior offences, but first-time infringers can expect up to one to three years in prison.
In a brief decision released September 19, the Copyright Board of Canada held that the Category 4 copies at issue in Alberta (Education) v Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright) [Access Copyright] constituted fair dealing for the purposes of research and private study.
Intellectual property rights are territorial by nature. Copyright holders cannot yet obtain unitary protection throughout the world. Instead, they obtain rights in Australia, Brazil, China, France, South Africa, and the United States. What type of rights they obtain, how strong these rights will be, and whether the rights will be effectively enforced depend largely on […]
With the start of the new season, the IP Intensive program is in full swing. Osgoode students Nancy Situ and Maximilian Paterson are currently at Stanford Law School as Visiting Researchers assigned to CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics.
In the past decade, the European Union and the United States have actively established bilateral, plurilateral, and regional trade and investment agreements. While the United States developed free trade agreements (FTAs), with a strong focus on trade, investment, and related areas, the European Union negotiated both FTAs and economic partnership agreements (EPAs) with its trading […]
Canadian Lawyer Magazine's 4Students featured an article last week on Osgoode Hall’s experiential education programs. In addition to reporting on Osgoode’s new McMurtry Visiting Clinical Fellowship, the magazine recognized Osgoode as the first law school in Canada to make experiential learning a mandatory component of its curriculum. IP Osgoode’s Intellectual Property Law and Technology Intensive […]