Michael John Long is an LLM candidate advancing to the PhD at Osgoode Hall Law School The leviathan known as the Google Books project may have far reaching consequences for international copyright law, as well as, the potential violation of antitrust law and the terms of international treaties, as a recent Globe and Mail article […]
Ashlee Froese is an Osgoode Hall alumnus and currently practices intellectual property at the law firm of Keyser Mason Ball LLP. Introduction Interbrand, a well reputed international company whose modus operandi is to analyze global brands, has recently released its bi-annual report on "Best Canadian Brands 2010". Interestingly, despite the volatile and contentious economic climate […]
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 […]
Steven Zuccarelli is a 2012 JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. [Update: June 11, 2010, 8:41 am - the text below is an updated version of this blog post. Inadvertently an early draft was posted and we have replaced it with a corrected version.] The recently introduced Copyright Modernization Act (Bill C-32) has been […]
Robert Dewald is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School Technology plays an important role in today’s educational institutions by providing easy access to and distribution of music, art, literature and other information that forms the foundation of a person’s education. Yet the innovation and technological advances that have created powerful teaching tools, such […]
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. It has been just over six years since the Supreme Court of Canada handed down its decision in CCH Canadian v. LSUC, the seminal fair dealing decision that saved LSUC lawyers from the copyright infringement claims of plaintiffs like The Thomson Corporation (pre-Reuters merger). […]
Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode. Over the next couple of weeks, our IPilogue editors will be posting blogs covering various aspects of the Copyright Modernization Act (Bill C-32) and we hope that you will join in the discussion. There is a lot to consider in the text of Bill […]
Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode. At long last, the Canadian Federal Government today introduced the Copyright Modernization Act (or Bill C-32), the much-awaited copyright reform bill. The bill comes after about a year of national copyright consultations and about two years after its predecessor, C-61 was introduced, and about […]
Many of you will wish to take note of the fast approaching submission deadlines for Canada's IP Writing Challenge and the IT.Can Student Writing Competition. Canada’s IP Writing Challenge is run by the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) and IP Osgoode. Law students, graduate students and professionals are all encouraged to participate. The deadline […]