Adam Heckman is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, and is currently enrolled in Professor Mgbeoji’s Patents class, in Fall 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. Intellectual Ventures (IV), a company that was initially founded on the premise of acting […]
Mark Bowman is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Google’s attempt to dismiss via summary judgment copyright infringement accusations from Oracle against its Java-based Android operating system have failed, with one exception. In a judgment filled with veiled disdain for Google’s motion, the United States District Judge William Alsup found that the main subject matter […]
Sean Jackson is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, and is currently enrolled in Professor Mgbeoji’s Patents class, in Fall 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. An ugly patent troll has reared its head again, this time targeting Amazon. With […]
Leslie Chong is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, and is currently enrolled in Professor Ikechi Mgbeoji’s Patents class, in Fall 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. Touted as the most significant development in American patent law since 1952, the […]
Neda Navabi is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, and is currently enrolled in Professor Ikechi Mgbeoji’s Patents class, in Fall 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. On October 14th, 2010, the Federal Court ruled that Amazon.com should be permitted […]
Mekhala Chaubal is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, and is currently enrolled in Professor Ikechi Mgbeoji’s Patents class, in Fall 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. The just-concluded international intellectual property conference, presented by the Canadian International Council (CIC) […]
Ben Farrow is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On September 12, 2011, the European Parliament extended the copyright term for performers from 50 to 70 years and implemented three important reforms to the copyright system by adopting an amendment to its existing copyright reform legislation, Directive 2006/116/EC on the term of protection […]
Taylor Vanderhelm is a JD candidate at the University of Alberta. The Federal Court of Canada awarded significant damages in a Pick v. 1180475 Alberta Ltd. et al. 2011 FC 1008, a suit for trade-mark infringement on August 18, 2011. The trade-mark in question was “The Queen of Tarts,” owned by Stephanie Anne Pick of […]
Teresa Scassa is the Canada Research Chair in Information Law at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. The publication of the second edition of David Vaver’s Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patents, Trade-Marks is a welcome event. The first edition of this book, published in 1997,was a lucid and concise account of the three main […]
Amelia Manera is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and an IP Osgoode Student Intern in the inaugural Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program (IP Intensive). On Friday, September 9, 2011, members of IP Osgoode, participants of the inaugural IP Law & Technology Intensive Program, IP enthusiasts, along with friends and family, gathered […]