IP Osgoode wishes everyone a very Happy Holiday and a Creative New Year! We appreciate your interest and support over the past year and look forward to another successful year. We will return from our short holiday break on 3 January 2011 and look forward to your participation in our upcoming activities.
Kyle Lavender is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School Jane Ginsburg, the Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law at Columbia Law School, and Lionel Bently, the Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge, […]
Irfan Lateef and Marko Zoretic are Partners at Knobbe Martens in Irvine, California. Mr. Zoretic is also an Osgoode Hall Law School graduate (2003) and is the founder and President of the Canadian American Bar Association. Canadian companies of all sizes can find themselves embroiled in patent infringement lawsuits south of the border, as a […]
Dan Whalen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School eBay Inc. is “not generally liable” for trademark infringement that occurs on its website, according to Advocate General Niilo Jaaskinen of the European Court of Justice (ECJ). He did, however, contend that the online auction-house is liable once it becomes aware of any breach […]
Nathan Fan is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has begun sending letters to American universities and colleges notifying them that the Higher Education Opportunity Act requirements for combating piracy are already in effect and that the MPAA will be sending warning notices of any copyright […]
Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School Can a blogger posting links on a website be held liable for the contents of those linked sites? This is the question that was posed to the Supreme Court of Canada last week when it heard Crookes v. Newton, the latest case to tackle […]
Matt Lonsdale is a JD candidate at Dalhousie University Oxford University Press has published a new edition of Contemporary Intellectual Property: Law and Policy. The textbook was co-authored by Hector MacQueen, Professor at Edinburgh Law School, Scottish Law Commissioner and member of the IP Osgoode International Advisory Council. While the book is intended to cover […]
Visit the Parliament of Canada website to view a calendar of meetings of the Legislative Committee on Bill C-32 (the “Copyright Modernization Act”). Meeting recordings and minutes are available on the site. The Committee is also welcoming briefs from groups and individuals who will not have the opportunity to appear before the Committee (documents should […]
Matt Lonsdale is a JD candidate at Dalhousie University In 2004 the Southern Alberta Marijuana Investigation Team, a joint effort of the RCMP and the Calgary Police Service, requested that the utility company Enmax attach a digital recording ammeter (“DRA”) to a residence in Calgary suspected of housing a marijuana growing operation. A DRA is […]
Dan Whalen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School In an interesting turn of events since my post last month, the European Patent Office has recently inked a deal with Google to have the Internet titan do some of its much-debated translation work. Each side will benefit from the arrangement. It takes some […]