Brent Randall is a JD candidate at the University of Ottawa. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, the final film in the Potter film series, was released on July 15, 2011.  With its worldwide box office grosses now pushing the $1 billion mark, the big story has been the end of the wildly […]

Kalen Lumsden is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Intellectual Property Office of the United Kingdom recently released a report titled The Role of Intellectual Property Rights in the UK Market Sector that estimates the “level of UK market sector investment in knowledge assets protected by Intellectual Property Rights  (IPRs) and the […]

Danny Titolo is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Federal Court of Canada has posted a new “model” bifurcation order which is to be used in matters pertaining to intellectual property. Bifurcation refers to a judge's ability to divide a trial into two parts and render a judgment on two sets of […]

Danny Titolo is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently overturned a Southern District of New York court’s decision by ruling that genes can be patented. The Federal Circuit decided that DNA isolated from the body was patent-eligible since it is “markedly different” from the […]

Jeffrey O'Brien in a JD candidate at the University of Alberta. Last month, Setanta Sports, a Dublin-based pay-per-view sports provider, was awarded summary judgement against an Alberta sports bar, The Brew'in Taphouse, and two of its principals by the Federal Court of Canada. Damages were awarded, but the most interesting order was the permanent injunction […]

Amelia Manera is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. A report entitled Trade Mark Incentives was released this month by the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO). The report generally found trade mark activity to be positively correlated with better performance in the areas of productivity, employment, wages, and growth rates.