The Conference Board of Canada has just released the report of Adjunct Professor Ruth Corbin on “Intellectual Property in the 21st Century.” Dr. Corbin is an Adjunct Professor of Intellectual Property at Osgoode Hall Law School, and Managing Partner of CorbinPartners Inc., a marketing science firm with a specialty practice in intellectual property valuation and […]
Virgil Cojocaru is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Using various processes or technologies is a minefield. Patent trolls or non practicing entities (NPE) are a large part of the problem. Knowing how to deal with their likes becomes a matter of legal tactics and strategy. However, before getting into potential solutions, we […]
Brandon Evenson is a 2010 JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On February 11, 2010, IP Osgoode and the Hennick Center for Business and Law hosted their second conference on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Commercialization. Similar to last year’s conference the speaking panel and audience were composed of various stakeholders from government, industry and […]
Billy Barnes is a JD candidate at the University of Toronto. Last week, the Federal Court of Australia published a highly anticipated judgment in Roadshow Films v. iiNet. iiNet is an Australian ISP accused of authorizing copyright infringement by creating a service by which it profited from infringement and by failing to take "reasonable measures" […]
Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director IP Osgoode. Michel Gérin is the Executive Director of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada. The Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) and IP Osgoode are delighted to announce our 2010 Canadian writing challenge in intellectual property law. After a successful inaugural year, we are pleased to be running the […]
Virgil Cojocaru is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. These days governments are funding private sector enterprises. The public purse is increasingly used to aid businesses. However, many questions remain about the effectiveness of such a strategy. Josh Lerner, in his book, Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and […]
Nirav Bhatt is an LLM candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The World Health Organization (WHO), last week witnessed tumultuous questions from various nations at the meeting of Executive Board Members of WHO on the outcomes of an Expert Working Group on Research and Development Financing (EWG) which raised concerns about methods of work employed […]
Stu Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. As details of Conan O’Brien’s severance deal with NBC leak out, it seems that at least one thing won’t be travelling with Conan to wherever he ends up: His signature characters and comedy bits. NBC has reportedly staked out the IP rights in classic […]
Peter Waldkirch is a second year LL.B. student at the University of Ottawa. SciDev.net, a website providing “news, views and information about science, technology and the developing world” recently covered a move by Peru's National Institute of Culture to declare the techniques for farming a variety of giant white maize, paraqay sara in the Quechua […]
Brian Chau is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall. Special thanks to the panelists for contributing their perspectives and insight to the Osgoode community, and to Amanda Carpenter who has assisted me in writing this synopsis. THE EVENT On Wednesday January 27 2010, the IP club at Osgoode Hall Law School held a career panel […]