Billy Barnes is a JD candidate at the University of Toronto. According to a report commissioned by ICANN, the organization that oversees the domain name system, less than one quarter of domain name ownership records are accurate. Recent statements by the FBI and the UK Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) have drawn upon this report […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Along with the large amount of copyrighted music that gets copied in Canada without compensating the musician, there are attempts to make sure that some money goes back to Canadian musicians. For example, every time you buy blank media such as a CD or […]
George Nathanael is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is taking the Patent Law course. Earlier this week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) released an en banc decision on the case of Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Eli Lilly and Company. Ariad sued Eli Lilly for infringement of […]
Jonathan Odumeru is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Patent Law course. The group of 77 developing nations (G77), led de facto by China, has called for the implementation of a compulsory licensing system to facilitate the transfer of green technologies. These nations posit that such a system would fulfill vital […]
Parisa Nikfarjam is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is taking the Patent Law course. Digital technology has made it possible to resurrect dead celebrities, by way of digital clones created from photos and footages, and to manipulate their image such that they can be a part of new creative projects. This process, […]
Giovanni Maria Riccio is Professor of Private Comparative Law at the University of Salerno and is also an associate in the Mazzetti Rossi e Associate law firm in Italy. The Industrial Production Committee of the Italian Parliament has finally approved a draft bill which enforces use of a ‘made in Italy’ label on every product […]
Nirav Bhatt is an LLM candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On Thursday, March 4, IP Osgoode hosted a talk by Frances Seghers, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Government Affairs for Sony Pictures Entertainment. Her talk was a guest lecture in Barry Sookman’s intellectual property law class. Frances began the lecture by explaining a little bit […]
Alex Gloor is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. North of the Border we are quite familiar with the patent application brought by online retailer Amazon.com for its one-click ordering system. This application was rejected in Canada as being directed towards unpatentable subject matter. However, in the United States a modified version of […]
Peter Waldkirch is a second year LL.B. student at the University of Ottawa. The rapid rise of online social networks (can you believe that Facebook only opened itself to the general public in 2006?) has already raised many privacy-related issues. For example, I would suspect that many readers of IPilogue have already heard about stories […]
Nirav Bhatt is an LLM candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. WTO members on 2 March 2010, debated the question of whether a 2003 decision designed to improve access to medicines is working. Although opinions expressed in the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Council varied, members agreed that they should look at real-life […]