After two years of legal education in the classroom, starting my first semester of 3L by gaining practical experience as part of Osgoode’s Intellectual Property Law and Technology Intensive Program was a very welcome experience. Last year, as a member of Osgoode’s Harold G. Fox intellectual property moot team, I got a small taste of […]
Until mid-September of 2014, my perspective on legal policy was essentially limited to my experiences writing the policy section embedded in my law school and graduate school essays. This past fall I was fortunate enough to be enrolled in Osgoode's Intellectual Property Law and Technology Intensive Program and spend a semester at the Department of […]
In Fall of 2014, I had the privilege of participating in Osgoode's Intellectual Property Law and Technology Intensive Program. I was placed at ventureLAB, a non-profit Regional Innovation Centre and a member of the Ontario Network of Entrepreneurs, which helps entrepreneurs in York Region, Simcoe County and Muskoka District bring their innovations to market. Its […]
This past fall I had the privilege of participating in Osgoode Hall Law School’s Intellectual Property and Technology Law Intensive Program. The placement allowed me to spend my fall semester with the Legal Affairs department of Teva Canada, one of Canada’s largest manufacturers of generic medications and a subsidiary of Teva Ltd., one of the […]
Over the past year, the status of Alberta’s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) was in flux and closely watched by privacy experts and practitioners across Canada. In November 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada decision in Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner) v United Food and Commercial Workers, 2013 SCC 62, rendered PIPA unconstitutional, and declared it […]
University fair use policies were dealt a blow in October when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit reversed the District Court ruling in Cambridge Press v Georgia State University (GSU).
Bill C-8 (the Combating Counterfeit Products Act, previously known as Bill C-56) passed third reading in the House of Commons on October 2, 2014, and is now before the Senate for further review. The Bill proposes a number of legislative changes to the Canadian IP regime. One of its main objectives is to create […]
Converse, a subsidiary of Nike[1], has recently filed 22 separate lawsuits against 31 retailers and shoe designers, claiming trademark infringement for the design of their classic “Converse All Stars” shoes. Defendants include giant retailers Kmart and Wal-Mart and designers such as Sketchers, Fila and H&M.
American IP scholar Mark Lemley aptly characterized the dynamic relationship between IP and competition law as a swinging pendulum, in which antitrust enforcement of IP has cycled from under-protection to over-protection since the enactment of the Sherman Act in 1890. The United States Supreme Court’s recent affirmation of antitrust scrutiny in patent litigation indicated that […]
On October 23rd and 24th, inventors, law students, lawyers, patent agents, patent portfolio managers, policy analysts, Canadian Intellectual Property Office’s (CIPO) patent examiners and other stakeholders of the patent system convened at Osgoode for the IP Hackathon. Inspired by similar events at Stanford, Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino, the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, decided to […]