IP Osgoode is pleased to announce its 2011-2012 IPilogue Editorial Team. As many of you know, IPilogue is the first online review of its kind, featuring thoughtful intellectual property law and technology blog posts by student editors as well as by scholars and experts from around the world. We are an interdisciplinary forum, exploring wide-ranging […]
IP Osgoode is hosting a symposium on copyright on Friday, October 21, 2011. The focus of the event is summed up in its title, “Can Canada Learn Anything from Europe? European Perspectives on Copyright Law in the Information Era”.
With the latter portion of the summer now upon us here in Canada, IP Osgoode will be slowing down its volume of blog posts, updates and IPIGRAM e-newsletters over the rest of July and August. We will be back in full swing at the end of August to kick off another busy academic year. First […]
feminists@law is a new, peer-reviewed, online, open access journal of feminist legal scholarship. All are invited to visit the website at http://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/feministsatlaw/index and to pass it on to your networks. The following is an edited version of feminists@law's announcement.
The annual ENG4000 Competition was held on April 21, 2011. The School of Engineering at York University, under the organizational leadership of by Professor G. Zhu, runs the competition.
You have some innovative research you want to commercialize and you are unsure how to protect your smart idea. Where do you go to get help? This burning question has been answered by a new initiative between The Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) and IP Osgoode.
A new Regional Innovation Centre has been launched to help up-and-coming York Region companies reach the next level of growth. Called ventureLAB, the centre – which provides services at no-charge to qualified small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) – is the go-to point for entrepreneurs looking to build world-class businesses.
Alan Macek of IPPractice.ca reports: "Amazon.com filed its Responding Memorandum of Fact and Law earlier this week (PDF available) in the proceeding on patentable subject matter at the Federal Court of Appeal."
Canada recently sent a submission to the World Intellectual Property Organization on the proposed Broadcasting Treaty. The submission comments on the proposals contained in the WIPO document SCCR/15/2 rev, which will ultimately form the basis of the new treaty.
Amendments to the Patent Rules relating to advanced examination of 'green technologies' (s.28(1)(b)) are now in force. The amendments also provide for all applications to leave advanced examination if time limits are extended or the application goes abandoned (s.28(2)). See Canada Gazette, Vol. 145, No. 6, March 16, 2011, and the Canadian Intellectual Property Offfice's […]