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
Fiona Li is a J.D. candidate at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Patent Law course. A non-practicing entity (NPE) is a patent owner that does not manufacture or use the patented invention. NPEs are commonly referred to as patent trolls. More specifically, patent trolls buy patents cheaply from entities not actively seeking to enforce […]
Keldeagh Lindsay is a J.D. candidate at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Patent Law course. “In our system of patent law, the identity of the inventor is, for the most part, overshadowed by the issue of invention.” (Apotex v. Wellcome [2001] 1 F.C. 495, at para. 27) The Patent Act does not define “inventorship”, […]
George Nathanael is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Last week, Advocate General Paolo Mengozzi of the European Court of Justice released his opinion on the questions referred by a Dutch court concerning the case of Monsanto Technology LLC v. Cefetra BV and Others. The case involves Monsanto’s attempt to prevent imports of […]
IP Osgoode is proud to announce the forthcoming publication of a new book edited by Lionel Bently (Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Cambridge), Catherine W Ng (Lecturer of Law at the University of Aberdeen), and Giuseppina D'Agostino (Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School in Canada).
Dr. Stan Shapson is Vice-President Research and Innovation at York University. I recently gave a talk at a conference hosted by IP Osgoode and the Hennick Centre for Business and Law, which centred on the development of strong public/private sector collaborations in an emerging new paradigm for innovation. With the challenge of a changing external […]
Michael McClurg is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is taking the Patent Law course. In late 2009, the United Nations Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples released its report on the State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (“the UN report”). The report is intriguing in that it focuses a […]
Brian Chau is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. As Nortel nears the end of the insolvency process, it is exploring the potential sale of its extremely valuable patent portfolio. Nortel holds 4,000 “patent families” related to the next-generation wireless technology, most notably LTE (Long Term Evolution) among others. The sale of these […]
Brandon Evenson is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Technology blogs are still buzzing over Apple’s recently filed lawsuit against HTC for patent infringement. In their filing, Apple claims that various HTC phones (including but not limited to phones running the Google Android OS) infringe a number of Apple’s patents currently used in […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has recently held that the U.S. Postal Service should compensate the sculptor of a column of marching soldiers at the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington for an image on a 37-cent stamp. A photo […]
Patrick Hui is a J.D. candidate at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Patent Law course. Innovator companies have long founded their business plans on the search for blockbuster drugs. Blockbuster drugs are products that generate more than $1 billion in annual revenue for pharmaceutical companies and are the lifeline of these businesses. By allocating […]