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
Brian Chau is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Digital data in the 21st century is often envisioned to be stored somewhere in a vast cloud of storage mediums – but at the end of the day, the discrete bits and bytes of data are tied to physical locations. While information on the internet transcends […]
McCarthy Tétrault partners Barry Sookman (IP Osgoode Advisory Board member) and Steven Mason have published a new casebook, Intellectual Property Law in Canada: Cases and Commentary. The authors draw on their extensive expertise in intellectual property to provide law students, law professors, and lawyers with important insights on the diverse laws that protect the types […]
Nathan Fan, Melanie Larock, Stuart Freen, Joanna Vatavu and Alex Gloor comprised the 2010 Harold G. Fox Moot team for Osgoode Hall. Yes, this is the third post on the 2010 Harold G. Fox Moot in the last three weeks. Yes, it will likely be the last one until next year. Still, as a team […]
Annie Harris is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is taking the Patent Law course. Bioprospecting refers to the process of looking for useful plant and animal substances, usually for medicinal purposes. The areas of the world with the greatest biodiversity are also home to the largest populations of indigenous people.
George Nathanael is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Last week an Italian court found three Google executives liable for privacy violations in relation to a video posted on Google Video in 2006. The video showed an autistic boy being bullied by classmates, and it was posted by the classmates themselves. Google actually […]
Brandon Evenson is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is taking the Patent Law course. A patent system is a balancing act. On one hand, a patent system provides incentives to innovate, commercialize, and disclose innovations to society. On the other hand, a patent system discourages the proliferation of innovations in society […]
IP Osgoode is proud to announce the success of Osgoode’s IP moot team in the 2010 Harold G. Fox Moot held this past weekend on February 19 and 20. The moot is named in honour of the late Harold G. Fox, one of Canada’s leading intellectual property scholars and advocates. Osgoode’s contingent consisted of third-year […]
Billy Barnes is a JD candidate at the University of Toronto. Joel Tenenbaum was the second person to go to trial after being accused of internet file-sharing. His struggle with the RIAA has won him plenty of supporters as "the average David fighting against the corporate Goliaths." This is just part of a larger social […]
Alex Gloor is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is taking the Patent Law course. The world of patent law has certainly been excited since the Febuary 12th decision of Ex Parte Pfizer made by a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office panel. In this case, the broadest claim within Pfizer's 2002 "Viagra […]
Stuart Freen is a J.D. candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is taking the Patent Law course. Non-practicing entities (NPEs) are rarely depicted in a positive light. Particularly in the IT sector, NPEs or “patent trolls” as they are often called are characterized as opportunistic extortionists, amassing large and strategic patent portfolios without actually conducting […]