Dan Whalen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Calling an end to hostilities, rival chipmakers Intel and NVIDIA have signed a new patent cross-licensing agreement that will take the companies into 2017. The deal grants Intel access to all of NVIDIA’s graphics processing unit (GPU) patents, premier along stand-alone graphics chips. In […]
Samantha Schreiber is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law (the “Institute”) has published comments on two draft instruments (1) the Draft Commission Block Exemption Regulation on Research and Development Agreements (the “Draft R&D Regulation”) and (2) the Draft Guidelines on Horizontal Cooperation Agreements […]
Dan Whalen is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Indian Patent Office recently denied exclusive rights to Abbott Laboratories for a premier HIV-fighting drug – effectively opening up the market to lower-cost generic substitutes. The company’s application was officially contested by four opponents led by the non-governmental organization Initiative for Medicines, Access […]
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: […]
Nathan Fan is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Web TV is the new place to be, so it seems. Google is currently in talks with Filmyard Holdings to license the digital rights to Miramax Film’s extensive repertoire. The negotiation efforts are in the hopes of bolstering its online services such as YouTube […]
Matt Lonsdale is a JD candidate at Dalhousie University The New York Times is predicting that this holiday season could be the time that electronic book readers, or e-readers, finally break into the mainstream. As consumers become accustomed to the idea and retailers drop prices, more people may choose to skip over old-fashioned paper and […]
Steven Zuccarelli is a J.D. Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School On 28 October 2010, IP Osgoode hosted Professor Graham Dutfield of the University of Leeds School of Law, who discussed research that demonstrates how the development and commercialization of hormones as pharmaceuticals represents an example of how IP policy, scientific developments, and the business […]
Susan H. Abramovitch is a partner in Gowlings' Toronto office, practising exclusively in entertainment law. Susan's practice covers all aspects of music industry transactions, as well as film, television, live theatre, multimedia, videogaming and book publishing. IPilogue Editor Stuart Freen sat down with her earlier this week to talk about the video gaming industry and […]
Leslie Chong is a J.D. Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School In their thought-provoking New York Times article, Kal Raustiala (professor at UCLA Law School) and Chris Sprigman (professor at Virginia Law School) discuss the implications of extending copyright protection to innovations on the football field. While their article focuses solely on the effects of […]
Stuart Freen is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School Waterloo-based mobile phone company Research In Motion may be set to reveal a new Blackberry-branded tablet PC at its developer conference next week. Market watchers predict that RIM will unveil a 7-inch touchscreen device tentatively called the “BlackPad”, which would go on sale in […]