David Vaver is Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Osgoode Hall Law School and on the Advisory Board of IP Osgoode. Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Readers will be saddened to hear that William L. Hayhurst QC passed away on February 27, 2011 after a long illness. Bill Hayhurst […]
Professor Siebrasse is a Professor of Law at the University of New Brunswick. His patent law blog is Sufficient Description. The turn to policy in legal analysis that began with the Realists has undoubtedly been salutary in its overall effect on the law, but we have yet to fully come to grips with the evidentiary […]
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 […]
Pascale Chapdelaine is a PhD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and a member of IP Osgoode. Her current research seeks to define and substantiate consumers’ rights with respect to copies of copyrighted works that consumers lawfully access. In a Brief submitted to the Legislative Committee on Bill C-32, I offered some comments on the […]
Matt Lonsdale is a JD candidate at Dalhousie University. On January 26, 2011, Dalhousie University hosted its 4th annual Data Privacy Day. The half-day conference featured presenters from a wide variety of backgrounds, running the gamut from journalism to computer security to law. They spoke on topics ranging from browser security to compliance with the Personal Information […]
Professor Sean O'Connor is a Research Affiliate to IP Osgoode, Director of the Law, Technology & Arts Group, Faculty Director of the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic, and Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle. Traditionally, debates over the ownership and use of government funded inventions revolve around the interests of: […]