Bob Tarantino is a lawyer in the Entertainment Law Group of Heenan Blaikie LLP. He holds graduate degrees in law from Osgoode Hall and the University of Oxford. Thinking of entertainment law as the neglected adoptee of the intellectual property bar provides an apt metaphor. Because it is more an area of practice than a […]
Blake Moran is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. When you tell someone that you have an undergraduate degree in science, a masters degree in business, and have started studying law, they usually say something like “seems to me like you REALLY can’t make up your mind!” But this summer, I finally got […]
Michael John Long is an LLM candidate at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Intellectual Property Theory course. The Romance of the Public Domain, as Anupam Chander and Madhavi Sunder see it, is the presumption that the public domain is a landscape where everyone has equal access to reap the riches found therein. This ‘romance […]
Brian Chau is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. A significant problem that arises with internet censorship comes from the sheer volume and infinite forms of data generated on a daily basis across the world. An analogy can be drawn to the practical realities of commercial fishing – for every net cast into […]
Brandon Evenson is a 2010 JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On November 3rd, over 1000 privacy experts from 50 nations met in Madrid and drafted an agreement on international standards for the protection of privacy and personal data. Privacy organizations have touted the agreement as an expansive statement on the future of privacy. […]
Nirav Bhatt is an LLM candidate at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Intellectual Property Theory course. WIPO has been the forefront organization within the United Nations (UN) dedicated to develop a balanced and accessible international Intellectual Property (IP) system. Although it was established in 1967, its history stretches back to one hundred and thirty […]
Billy Barnes is a JD candidate at the University of Toronto. Last Friday, Google filed a revised settlement agreement for the class action law suit regarding its Google Book Search service. The settlement addresses many complaints directed at the original proposed settlement in October 2008. The two most important of these are the handling of […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Many thanks to Bijan Soleymani, a M. Eng Candidate at McGill University. [Note: This article includes non-Latin characters (such as Chinese language characters). The ability to view such text will depend on your internet browser settings.] IDNs vs Internationalized TLDS = fully vs partly […]
Wiseman Ubochioma is a doctoral candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University and is taking the Intellectual Property Theory course. The TRIPS Agreement has always been heralded as a milestone achievement recorded in the field of intellectual property. It provides a minimum standard of intellectual property protection among WTO members and reduces the […]
Alex Gloor is a JD Student at Osgoode Hall Law School The next step in the well documented Bilski case took place on Nov. 9 when the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments from both parties. As a quick reminder, the issue revolves around the patenting of business methods; in this case, the subject […]