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
Nathan Fan is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In the growing number of legal victories for the MPAA, the English High Court of Justice recently found popular Usenet indexer, Newzbin, liable for the copyright infringement of works owned by the MPAA. The March 29, 2010 decision ruled in favour of the movie […]
Matthew Thorpe is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is taking the Patent Law course. In a landmark victory the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Public Patent Foundation succeeded on a motion for summary judgement to invalidate patents held by Myriad Genetics over two genes linked with breast and ovarian […]
Alex Gloor is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School Doctors, cancer patients and virtually the entire biotech industry are joined in celebration after a District Court ruling in New York invalidated two important patents on gene sequences held by Myriad Genetics. The basis of the invalidity holding is that naturally occurring gene sequences, […]
David Meurer is a PhD candidate in the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture at York and Ryerson Universities and Senior Research Assistant, Artmob. Artmob is a research project driven by several principles: that Canadians should have greater online access to publicly funded cultural collections; that Canadian cultural institutions have a responsibility to make […]
Ron A. Bouchard is an Associate Professor in the Faculties of Medicine & Dentistry and Law, University of Alberta. The Canadian Patent Act defines an invention as any “new and useful art, process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement in any art, process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter.” […]
Essien Udokang is a J.D. Candidate 2010 at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Patent Law class. Since the decision of the Supreme Court in Free World (2000 SCC 66, [2000] 2 S.C.R. 1024) it is supposedly settled law that courts are to construe the claims of a patent in a purposive manner in determining infringement and invalidity. […]
Leigh-Ann Tonon is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is taking the Patent Law course. In this blog, I wish to explore the relevance of intellectual property rights to outer space activities. Despite the inventiveness and innovation needed and used for space technology, it is only in recent years that intellectual property […]
Virgil Cojocaru is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In BMS Computer Solutions Limited and AB Agri Limited the meaning and interpretation of a perpetual licence came under debate in an application for summary judgment. The dispute concerns an animal feed maker, AB Agri (Agri), and BMS Computer Solutions (BMS), the software developer. […]
Peter Waldkirch is a second year LL.B. student at the University of Ottawa. Can someone own facts? According to the US “hot news” doctrine, the answer is – sorta. Under certain circumstances, a news gathering organization can receive “quasi-property” rights in facts against allegedly free-riding competitors. As neither property nor copyright, the rarely used hot […]
Tamsin Thomas is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is taking the Patent Law class. At the beginning of March 2010, Greenpeace Germany and others unsuccessfully challenged a patent on a method of increasing milk supply in cattle. Cattle can be made to produce larger amounts of milk when they are genetically […]