Ivy Tsui is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Members of the music and radio broadcasting industries provided comments related to Bill C-32 at the hearings of the Legislative Committee on March 1 and 3, 2011. This post reports on opening statements made by individuals and groups and focusses on comments regarding the Bill.  […]

Dan Whalen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Electronics giant LG obtained a preliminary injunction from the Civil Court of Justice in the Hague barring the import of Sony’s PlayStation 3 (PS3) gaming console into the European Union. While it is only the latest escalation of the two companies’ intellectual property standoff, […]

Matt Lonsdale is a JD candidate at Dalhousie University. The Federal Court of Appeal has upheld a decision of the Commissioner of Patents to refuse to accept maintenance fees and reinstate an application because the fees were not paid by the agent of record.  The agent's mistake of omitting an Appointment of Agent proved fatal.

Ivy Tsui is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Facebook is moving forward with its plan to allow third-party developers and external websites to access users’ home address and phone numbers despite widespread criticisms.

Leslie Chong is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Chapman Kelley v. Chicago Park District is a recent decision rendered in the United States Court of Appeals (Seventh Circuit) that questioned the extent an author's moral rights may be protected in the United States. While the courts eventually held that no moral rights […]

Dan Whalen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In an effort to curtail intellectual property infringement, the Obama administration released the first Annual Report on Intellectual Property Enforcement. The administration announced that it plans to send the proposal to US Congress “in the very near future” to begin shaping its recommendations into […]