The IPilogue is IP Osgoode’s online journal of IP Law and Technology. It publishes analysis and commentary on current pressing intellectual property, technology, privacy and related legal issues. The IPilogue features curated contributions from students, scholars, and experts within the Osgoode community, from our network of affiliated researchers and partners, as well as from professionals and scholars in disciplines outside of law.
Editor in Chief: Prof. Carys Craig (ccraig@osgoode.yorku.ca)
Submission inquiries: iposgoode@osgoode.yorku.ca
Sue Gaudi is the Vice-President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at The Globe and Mail Inc. She presented the following talk at a lecture to students in IP Osgoode's internship program, the Intellectual Property Law and Technology Intensive Program (IP Intensive). We are very pleased that The Globe and Mail is hosting one of our […]
Guillaume Laroche is an LLM candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and a Graduate Student Member of IP Osgoode. Prior to entering law, he completed studies in music performance, composition and theory at the University of Alberta, the Schulich School of Music of McGill University, and in England. At the Society for Music Theory’s 2011 […]
Luca Belli is a PhD candidate at Panthéon-Assas University (PRES Sorbonne Universités), Paris, and a member of the Steering Committee at MediaLaws, www.medialaws.eu. The re-posting of this analysis is part of a cross-posting collaboration with MediaLaws: Law and Policy of the Media in a Comparative Perspective. [In September 2011], the India-Brazil-South-Africa Forum Dialogue (IBSA) gained the attention […]
Jenny Lyngsø Østergaard is a LLM student from the University of Copenhagen and is currently attending an exchange program at Osgoode Hall Law School. She is enrolled in Professor Mgbeoji’s Patents class in the Fall 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. […]
Courtney Doagoo is a doctoral student at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. On September 20, 2011, the General Court of the European Union released its decision to refuse the registration of a Community trademark for the for the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) coat of arms, upholding the previous ruling by […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sara Hlobil is a student of Dutch Law at the University of Amsterdam on exchange 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. [IP Osgoode: We have […]
A. Samuel Oddi is a professor of Intellectual Property at the University of Akron School of Law. In prior articles,[3] I have tried to point out that developing countries, and particularly the least developed countries (LDCs), are not the intended or even incidental beneficiaries of the intellectual property system--particularly its internationalization under TRIPS. I have primarily […]
Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. On November 1, 2011, at an event titled, “Engineering The Future”, York University President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri announced a $25-million dollar transformative donation from Pierre Lassonde, Chair of Franco-Nevada Corporation, for an expanded School of Engineering at York’s Keele Campus. The Faculty of Graduate Studies […]