“Business As Usual?” How Patents For Business Methods May Needlessly Stifle The Market

Geoff Goodson is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is 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. Amazon.com Inc. v. Canada (Attorney General) brings the Canadian legal debate over the patentability […]

UK Supreme Court Allows Gene Sequence Patents

Ivy Tsui is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is 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. In the genomic era, the flood of computationally predicted genes has introduced a new […]

Business Method Patents: Policy Implications

Bita M. Rajaee is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is 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. One of the most important recent decisions in Canadian patents law is that […]

Apple Unlocks Another Patent War Weapon In Smartphone Market

Stephanie Roberts is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is 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. On October 25 2011, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted Apple […]

EU Limits Embryonic Stem Cell Research Patentability

Grant O'Shea is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is 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. While reading a news article on the recent European Court of Justice decision, Oliver […]

The Dirty Details of Disclosure: Navigating the Fine Line Between Prior Art and Public Good in British Patent Law

Mekhala Chaubal is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On 27 July 2011, Mr. Justice Arnold of the Patents Court Division of the High Court of England and Wales, by refusing to grant a summary judgment to the plaintiffs in LG Electronics v Sony Europe Ltd & Others (“LG Electronics”) opened the door […]

Roundup Ready® Soybeans: Patent Exhaustion in Self-Replicating Biotechnologies

Kalen Lumsden is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School.  In Monsanto v. Bowman, No. 2010-1068 , Fed. Cir. 2011., decided September 21, 2011, a farmer appeals an adverse judgment after Monsanto had sued him for patent infringement because he had attempted to exploit a perceived loophole in his licensing agreement. The central issue […]

Halliburton Decision Widens Patentability Of Computer Related Inventions In The UK

Amanda MacNaughton 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. Halloween came early for those seeking computer related patents in the UK.  The […]

Ultramercial Patent Appeal Keeps Door Open For Future Software Patents

Mark Bowman is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled in Ultramercial v Hulu that a process displaying copyright media to a user in exchange for displaying an advertisement for a product over the internet is not too abstract to be patented.

Goodbye Borders, Hello Asset Fight

Jennifer O’Dell is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall and Denise Brunsdon is a social media writer and researcher. Borders will not be the last book chain to close its doors because of insufficient revenue in an e-reader world. But while there is symbolism and nostalgia in the loss, there are also curious digital and […]