Amelia Manera is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The concept of collective rights of Indigenous Peoples with regards to intellectual property rights is just one of the topics under discussion at the Eighteenth Session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetics Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) being held at […]
Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Director and Founder of IP Osgoode, and a Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. In the Canadian Federal Election yesterday, Canadians voted for change in Ottawa. Stephen Harper as Prime Minister and his Conservative Party now have a clear majority in Parliament, giving them a strong mandate to lead and implement […]
The annual ENG4000 Competition was held on April 21, 2011. The School of Engineering at York University, under the organizational leadership of by Professor G. Zhu, runs the competition.
You have some innovative research you want to commercialize and you are unsure how to protect your smart idea. Where do you go to get help? This burning question has been answered by a new initiative between The Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) and IP Osgoode.
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. How many users out there would click “I Agree” to play an online game if the meaning of that agreement was set out for them […]
Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Professor Robert Howell, of the University of Victoria, has authored a new book with Irwin Law entitled Canadian Telecommunications Law.
A new Regional Innovation Centre has been launched to help up-and-coming York Region companies reach the next level of growth. Called ventureLAB, the centre – which provides services at no-charge to qualified small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) – is the go-to point for entrepreneurs looking to build world-class businesses.
Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. The WIPO Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) has released a “Scoping Study on Copyright and Related Rights and the Public Domain”, prepared by Professor Séverine Dusollier of the University of Namur, Belgium. The Study recognizes that many business models now thrive on the public domain, […]
Adrienne Ng is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Donald Light and Rebecca Warburton (hereafter LW), in February 2011, published a paper entitled “Demythologizing the high costs of pharmaceutical research”. The paper suggests that the US$802 million price tag of pharmaceutical innovation estimated in a 2003 report is inflated. A more sound estimate would be US$43 […]
Kirk M. Baert and Jonathan Bida of Koskie Minsky LLP are class counsel in this action. Heather Robertson has prosecuted two class actions on behalf of freelance authors in Canada relating to the reproduction of their works in electronic media, such as online databases. In the second class action, a settlement went before the court […]