Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Following the release of the much anticipated U.S. Supreme Court decision of Bilski v. Kappos, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has recently published some interim guidelines on subject matter patentability. Titled Interim Guidance for Determining Subject Matter Eligibility for Process Claims in View […]
Nathan Fan is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School On July 6th, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled in favour of importers of soy meal from Argentina, soy meal that was produced from the Roundup Ready soybean patented by Monsanto. In its decision (C-428/08 Monsanto Technology LLC v Cefetra BV and Others) […]
Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman ‘74 Distinguished Professor of Law and Information at the University of California at Berkeley. Researchers affiliated with the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology--Rob Merges and Pam Samuelson of Berkeley Law School, Ted Sichelman of University of San Diego Law School, and Stu Graham of the Georgia Institute […]
Professor Geertrui Van Overwalle (University of Leuven, Belgium) has edited a new book entitled "Gene Patents and Collaborative Licensing Models -- Patent Pools, Clearinghouses, Open Source Models and Liability Regimes". The book is briefly described below. Concerns have been expressed that gene patents might result in restricted access to research and health care. The exponential […]
Dr. Ruth Corbin, Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall, and Managing Partner of CorbinPartners Inc., along with the Conference Board of Canada, have won the prestigious 2010 Murray Philp Prize for the project "Intellectual Property in the 21st Century." The release of the report was previously announced on the IP Osgoode site in mid-February. The award was […]
Nathan Fan is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. At this year’s Canada 3.0 conference, over 2,000 members of the private, public and academic sectors gathered together in hopes of forging actionable ideas that could bring Canada’s digital media industry into the global forefront. As keynote speaker, Tony Chapman (CEO of Capital C) […]
Vincent Doré is a JD/MBA Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and Schulich School of Business. Over 2000 people convened in Stratford, Ontario this week for Canada 3.0: Canada’s Premier Digital Media Forum. This 2-day conference was created in an effort to bring together the best minds from the digital media space to collaboratively develop […]
Virgil Cojocaru is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In a recent paper, Michael Jacobs and Alan Devlin discuss the debate in forcing monopolists to license their IP. By licensing their IP, monopolists would increase market innovation and create a competitive environment. However, these advantages come with a significant drawback. They can decrease the […]
Nirav Bhatt is an LLM candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The much deliberated topic of making education easily accessible and available for no cost is indeed coming closer to reality, with a huge increase in the number of students using OpenCourseWare. With institutions like Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge, and M.I.T making learning materials easily accessible online, there is a great […]
Kevin Osborne is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is taking the Patent Law course. Earlier this month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) confirmed Amazon.com's controversial 1-Click patent (PDF) following a re-examination of newly-submitted prior art (via TechFlash). This re-examination sheds light on the difference between the novelty and obviousness […]