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
Dan Whalen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. As of June 1, 2011, the UK has become the latest franchise state for Peer to Patent, the online system that allows interested observers to contribute to the patent examination process. The pilot program will follow the same process as it has in other […]
Andrew Baker is an LLB/BCL candidate at McGill University Faculty of Law. Recent developments in the UK, including the notorious case of a famous footballer and a report from Lord Neuberger, have once again called into question the use of the super-injunction as a method of protecting privacy prompting responses from MPs, the judiciary, and […]
Matt Lonsdale is a graduate of the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. American motor club AAA has spoken out in support of H.R. 1449, The Motor Vehicle Owners Right to Repair Act. The bill, which aims to “protect the rights of consumers to diagnose, service, maintain, and repair their motor vehicles” by placing […]
Jeffrey O’Brien is a JD candidate at the University of Alberta. In the recent case R v The Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom decided that the police can never hold on to DNA evidence collected from suspects not subsequently convicted.
Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. We are pleased to share with you the official announcement of the OCE / IP Osgoode Innovation Clinic. This groundbreaking initiative will see IP Osgoode partnered with the Ontario Centres of Excellence’s (OCE) Centre for Commercialization of […]
Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. This time of the academic year is always bitter sweet, a time for farewell salutes and also welcomes.
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 […]
Michael Gilburt is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On May 17, 2011, Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) Dr. Ann Cavoukian released her Annual Report on the state of privacy protection in Canada. The Report articulated a clear message to public and private institutions: “be proactive” in protecting personal information and online […]
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.