Matt Lonsdale is a graduate of the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. European Union contract law may receive a shot in the arm next October, if Viviane Reding, EU Justice Commissioner and Vice-President of the European Commission, makes good on her promise to introduce a legislative proposal for a new legal instrument aimed […]

Kalen Lumsden is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Committee on the Impact of Copyright Policy on Innovation in the Digital Era is using some of the innovations of the digital era to vet drafts of research papers it commissioned. Through posting the drafts on its blog and asking for comments, the […]

Ikechi Mgbeoji is an Associate Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School and a member of IP Osgoode. For more than one hundred years, the branch of law known as intellectual property rights (IPRs) has been treated by universities and colleges in the Third World as an after-thought, an appendage to other disciplines of […]

Andrew Baker is a JD candidate at McGill University, Faculty of Law. Ashlee Froese, Osgoode Hall Law School alum of 2006 and IPilogue contributor, has launched CanadaFashionLaw.com, which has garnered immediate attention from both the fashion industry and the legal community, receiving over 500 unique hits in its first three days.

Sebastian Talluri is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and a Fellow of the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) / IP Osgoode Innovation Clinic. On June 16, 2011, I attended MedEdge Summit 2011, York Region. The half-day MedEdge Summit was hosted by the municipality of Richmond Hill and sponsored by a number of organizations, including […]

Kalen Lumsden is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On June 1, 2011, Pfizer, manufacturer of the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra, filed suit against rival Watson Pharmaceuticals to frustrate its attempts to produce a generic version of the drug. The next day Watson confirmed that it had applied to the US Food and […]