IP Osgoode is an independent voice that explores legal governance issues at the intersection of intellectual property (IP) and technology. The program’s researchers, collaborators, and students actively engage in some of the most important and cutting-edge IP law and technology related research and policy discussions of today.
Commentary and analysis on the latest developments in intellectual property, technology and privacy, featuring curated contributions from students, scholars, and experts within the Osgoode community.
Nirav Bhatt is an LLM Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. From 2-6 November 2009, the meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group for the ongoing negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol to enhance international climate change cooperation took place in Barcelona, Spain. The Barcelona talks […]
Professor Giuseppina D'Agostino is the Founder and Director IP Osgoode. Michel Gérin is the Executive Director of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada. IP Osgoode and the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada are proud to announce the winners of Canada's IP Writing Challenge: 1. Law student category - Kiernan Murphy, "Post-expiry Patent Losses: Recoverable, but […]
Brandon Evenson is a 2010 JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Last Thursday, IP Osgoode hosted Dr. Jacqueline Lipton, Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University, to give a talk on privacy and the challenges of the new Web 2.0 culture. Professor Lipton began her talk characterizing the differences between Web 1.0 and […]
George Nathanael is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On October 29, Facebook published a new privacy policy that it hopes will allow users to better understand the uses of the information supplied to the website. Elliot Schrage (VP of Global Communications, Marketing and Public Policy), introduced the new policy on Facebook’s blog […]
Brian Chau is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall. e-Government, e-Commerce, online banking, Facebook – What do these have in common? All these services and functions are made possible by the fact that they are able to associate our activities with our identities. As our reliance on technology continues to grow, the ability to authenticate […]
Billy Barnes is a JD candidate at the University of Toronto. Did you know that Facebook will 'memorialize' a person's profile after their death? Until recently, not many people did. The feature has existed for a few years now, but it received minimal media attention until a member of the Facebook team posted about it […]
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