Ashlee Froese is a branding lawyer and trade-mark agent at Keyser Mason Ball LLP. You can follow her on Twitter @brandfashionlaw or via her blog at www.canadafashionlaw.com. In June 2011, the Council of Fashion Designers of America (“CFDA”) hosted its annual Fashion Awards – the fashion world’s equivalent to the Oscars®. Yet the biggest award […]
Ikechi Mgbeoji is an Associate Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School and a member of IP Osgoode. For more than one hundred years, the branch of law known as intellectual property rights (IPRs) has been treated by universities and colleges in the Third World as an after-thought, an appendage to other disciplines of […]
Nora Sleeth is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On June 21, 2011, Amazon.com appeared before the Federal Court of Appeal responding to an appeal of the Federal Court’s decision that Amazon’s “one click” business method constituted patentable subject matter.
Matt Lonsdale is a graduate of the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. A recent report claims that in 2009, 59% of the intellectual property rights in the work product of contractors hired by Canadian government agencies were retained by the agencies themselves. This is a departure from the goals of a government policy […]
Taylor Vanderhelm is a JD candidate at the University of Alberta. Less than a month after announcing its foray into online movie rentals, Google’s YouTube has made another significant announcement by offering users the ability to license their work using Creative Commons. Google is heralding the move as a way to foster creativity and sharing […]
Taylor Vanderhelm is a JD candidate at the University of Alberta. The European Commission recently revealed its proposal to overhaul the European Union’s intellectual property law regarding orphan works. The move is seen by many as an attempt to update and unify the European Union’s standards in light of technological advancements.
Ruth M. Corbin, Ph.D., LL.M., is the Managing Partner at CorbinPartners Inc. and an Adjunct Faculty member at Osgoode Hall Law School.[1] The Supreme Court of Canada, in its recent “Masterpiece” decision,[2] sent a strong message to the legal and social science communities with respect to survey evidence.
Jeremy Loeb is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, who is spending part of the summer completing the summer law program in International law at the Queen's University Bader International Studies Center in Herstmonceux, UK. He is currently writing from Paris, France. It has been nearly one month since the British took a […]
Kalen Lumsden is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Radio Systems Corp. v. Accession, Inc., No. 10-1390 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 25, 2011) overrules a 2003 decision that sending a cease-and-desist letter to an infringing party in another state was sufficient to grant the addressee’s state jurisdiction over the owner in future patent enforcement.
Taylor Vanderhelm is a JD candidate at the University of Alberta. New internet filtering rules set to commence in Turkey as of August 2011 have gathered international attention and raised the ire of many Turkish citizens recently. Turkey is set to introduce four new internet content filtering options: family, children, domestic, or standard as part […]