IPOsgoode and everyone involved in intellectual property law mourn the death from illness last week of Sir Henry Carr. After reading law at Oxford, Justice Carr went on to obtain his LL.M degree from the University of British Columbia, where he wrote a pioneering thesis on copyright in computer software under Professor David Vaver’s supervision. […]
July is a notoriously bad month for sports fans. No NHL, no NBA, no NFL, and unless your team is above .500 after the all-star break you have probably already checked out of baseball this season. Of course, Wimbledon and the British Open certainly provide their share of entertainment to golf and tennis fans, but […]
IP Osgoode would like to congratulate the winners of the Gowling WLG Best Blog in IP Law and Technology Prize for 2018-2019. Four prizes in total are awarded each year to Osgoode students and the winning blog posts are featured in the IPilogue. Recipients also receive a $500 award, are announced at Convocation and receive […]
IP Osgoode is pleased to announce that Dr. Aviv Gaon is the new Deputy Editor for the Intellectual Property Journal (IPJ). Dr. Gaon is an IP Osgoode research affiliate and will be starting his fellowship at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto this fall. The IPJ is […]
After recently defeating one of the greatest NBA dynasties on the court, Raptors star and NBA Finals MVP, Kawhi Leonard is set to take on one of the world’s largest brands off the court. On June 3, in the middle of the NBA Finals, Leonard filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of California […]
The Law Commission of Ontario, in collaboration with Element AI and Osgoode Hall Law School recently hosted an AI for Lawyers conference. The conference featured a panel of legal practitioners who shared how their practices interact with AI, the benefits and the drawbacks so far, as well as the challenges and exciting opportunities ahead. Augmenting […]
Alectra Utilities recently announced the members of the inaugural Advisory Committee for new Green Energy & Technology Centre. Leading the six-member Committee is IP Osgoode's founder & director, Prof. Pina D'Agostino, who is currently a Director of Alectra Inc.'s Board of Directors. Click here to read the full press release.
Recently, I sat in on a well-attended speaker event at Cassels Brock. The first speaker at the event was Erich C. Carey, Vice President and Senior Counsel of the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), which is the trade association that represents American music publishers and their songwriting partners. The NMPA often advocates for music publishers […]
The audio-recording of IP Osgoode's Bracing for Impact: The AI Challenge (Part II: Data, Policy & Innovation) conference is now available on the Bracing for Impact conference series website. Click here to access the conference proceedings. A big thank you to all the conference speakers and participants for helping us make the conference a great […]
Canadians have privacy rights associated with their personal information. This even applies when one’s personal information is held by someone else – like with hospital medical records. Patient ownership of personal data was illustrated in the 1992 Supreme Court of Canada (‘SCC’) decision, McInerney v. MacDonald, where the Court verified that despite the physician having […]