Jeffrey Vicq is a member of Clark Wilson LLP’s Technology & Intellectual Property Group. He regularly writes about Canadian trade-mark issues on the Canadian Trademark Blog. Those of us who provide trade-mark prosecution and counselling services—and particularly those of us who work with clients that have multi-national trade-mark portfolios—know that clients are sensitive […]
Zak Muscovitch is the principal of The Muscovitch Law Firm, in Toronto, Canada. He is a veteran domain name lawyer having represented numerous domain name owners from all over the world in disputes and transactions since 1999. Banking errors always seem to be in favour of the bank, however in this particular case, Scotiabank’s […]
Nathan Fan is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Andrew Weaver, a prominent University of Victoria climate researcher, has claimed that he has been defamed in a series of articles published by The National Post regarding the recent controversies over the reliability of climate science. The statement of claim (courtesy of desmoblog.com) filed […]
Michael Long is an LLM candidate advancing to the PhD at Osgoode Hall Law School On April 26 of this year the European Copyright Code, which is the product of an academic endeavour between notable copyright scholars across the European Union, was introduced via the Wittem Project Group website (http://www.copyrightcode.eu/). The Group is of the […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In Football Dataco Ltd & Ors v Brittens Pools Ltd & Ors the England and Wales High Court has recently ruled on the copyright status of annual football fixtures lists produced and published for the purposes of the English and Scottish Premier leagues and […]
Jacqueline Lipton is a Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University. She is Co-Director for the Center of Law, Technology, and the Arts, and the Associate Director of the Frederick K Cox International Law Center. In the Web 2.0 era, copyright law has become too blunt an instrument to deal with the intricacies necessary […]
Osgoode has been invited to participate in a biannual international treaty negotiation competition hosted by The Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen. This year, the subject of the Copenhagen Competition is international IP law: “Access to Medicines”.
Brian Chau is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In a recent article, Christopher J. Buccafusco and Christopher Jon Sprigman consider whether IP transactions are subject to “endowment effects”. The endowment effect is a human behavioural phenomenon in which an individual’s perceived value of an object they own is greater than the value prescribed by […]
Virgil Cojocaru is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In a recent paper, Michael Jacobs and Alan Devlin discuss the debate in forcing monopolists to license their IP. By licensing their IP, monopolists would increase market innovation and create a competitive environment. However, these advantages come with a significant drawback. They can decrease the […]
Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Earlier this month a joint team of researchers from the Information Warfare Monitor and the Shadowserver Foundation released a new report entitled Shadows in the Cloud. The report details a complex cyber-espionage network operating out of China which has compromised computers and stolen hundreds […]