Professor Shamnad Basheer (National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata) is an IP Osgoode Research Affiliate and is also the founder of SpicyIP, a leading blog dedicated to analyzing IP and innovation policy news and cases from India. Glivec, a path-breaking anticancer drug by Novartis propelled Indian patent law onto the world stage in an interesting […]

Denis Barbosa is a Brazilian lawyer and Law Professor. He is Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the Graduate Division of the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and also at a number of other graduate programs in law schools elsewhere in the country.  Professor Barbosa is a member of IP Osgoode's international advisory council.   […]

The paperless office is yet to arrive, but that hasn’t stopped companies from introducing innovative ways of consuming written materials. One such attempt is Amazon.com’s e-book, called ‘Kindle’. When first released in late 2007, I looked at how purchasers of content for the device may be limited in their ability to re-sell their copy of […]

Michael Kostiuk is a first year law student at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Legal Values: Challenges in Intellectual Property course Adherents to rights-based theory have long posited that a creator possesses an inherent and inalienable initial right to her respective creation.  After all, with no possessory rights, why would anyone create at all? […]

Brian Higgins is a first year law student at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Legal Values: Challenges in Intellectual Property course. David Lametti’s 2001 article, “Publish and Profit?: Justifying the Ownership of Copyright in the Academic Setting”, details the intricacies of copyright ownership in a university setting ((2001), 26 Queen's L.J. 497 – 567).  […]

Samantha Nasrallah is a first year law student at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Legal Values: Challenges in Intellectual Property course. Roya Ghafele authored a report titled "Perceptions of IP: A review" in August 2008 (report available at http://www.ip-institute.org.uk/pub.html).  A summary of that report was posted on IPilogue last December.  Ghafele's report addresses what she calls a […]