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 […]