The Conference Board of Canada has just released the report of Adjunct Professor Ruth Corbin on “Intellectual Property in the 21st Century.”   Dr. Corbin is an Adjunct Professor of Intellectual Property at Osgoode Hall Law School, and Managing Partner of CorbinPartners Inc., a marketing science firm with a specialty practice in intellectual property valuation and […]

Osgoode Hall Law School of York University is one of the world’s leading law schools, with a commitment to excellence in teaching and research resulting in intellectual growth and exceptional career opportunities for our students. Our alumni’s history of success in private practice as well as many other fields has brought pride and recognition to […]

Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Privacy Commissioner of Canada (Jennifer Stoddart) recently delivered a speech entitled "The future of privacy regulation" at the 11th Annual Privacy and Security Conference held in Victoria, British Columbia. In her speech, she described the changes that have occurred in cyberspace over the […]

Virgil Cojocaru is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Using various processes or technologies is a minefield. Patent trolls or non practicing entities (NPE) are a large part of the problem. Knowing how to deal with their likes becomes a matter of legal tactics and strategy. However, before getting into potential solutions, we […]

Peter Waldkirch is a second year LL.B. student at the University of Ottawa. In 1934, Marion Sinclair wrote a short tune, “The Kookaburra Song”, for a Girl Scouts competition. The tune is a short, 4-bar melody intended to be sung as a round (a round is where different voices sing the same melody but start […]

George Nathanael is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On January 27 in Washington, D.C., the Advisory Committee to the Congressional Internet Caucus held their annual State of the Net Conference. One panel discussion, entitled “Copyright Strikes: When Has a Pirate Graduated to Internet Exile?”, featured commentary on the concept of graduated response […]