Nathan Fan is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In yet another Prince related copyright infringement suit, the Ninth Circuit in the U.S. has taken the opportunity to address the scope of the damage recovery provision in the DMCA for bogus takedown notices. In the recently released order granting partial summary judgement, federal […]
Amanda Letourneau is a J.D. candidate at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Patent Law course. News of Apple’s patent infringement lawsuit broke earlier this month and did not come as much of a surprise, given the relative frequency of IP lawsuits being launched in the mobile phone industry. A fellow classmate blogged about the […]
Fiona Li is a J.D. candidate at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Patent Law course. A non-practicing entity (NPE) is a patent owner that does not manufacture or use the patented invention. NPEs are commonly referred to as patent trolls. More specifically, patent trolls buy patents cheaply from entities not actively seeking to enforce […]
Keldeagh Lindsay is a J.D. candidate at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Patent Law course. “In our system of patent law, the identity of the inventor is, for the most part, overshadowed by the issue of invention.” (Apotex v. Wellcome [2001] 1 F.C. 495, at para. 27) The Patent Act does not define “inventorship”, […]
George Nathanael is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Last week, Advocate General Paolo Mengozzi of the European Court of Justice released his opinion on the questions referred by a Dutch court concerning the case of Monsanto Technology LLC v. Cefetra BV and Others. The case involves Monsanto’s attempt to prevent imports of […]
IP Osgoode is proud to announce the forthcoming publication of a new book edited by Lionel Bently (Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Cambridge), Catherine W Ng (Lecturer of Law at the University of Aberdeen), and Giuseppina D’Agostino (Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School in Canada).
Dr. Stan Shapson is Vice-President Research and Innovation at York University. I recently gave a talk at a conference hosted by IP Osgoode and the Hennick Centre for Business and Law, which centred on the development of strong public/private sector collaborations in an emerging new paradigm for innovation. With the challenge of a changing external […]
Michael McClurg is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is taking the Patent Law course. In late 2009, the United Nations Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples released its report on the State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (“the UN report”). The report is intriguing in that it focuses a […]
Brian Chau is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. As Nortel nears the end of the insolvency process, it is exploring the potential sale of its extremely valuable patent portfolio. Nortel holds 4,000 “patent families” related to the next-generation wireless technology, most notably LTE (Long Term Evolution) among others. The sale of these […]
Brandon Evenson is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Technology blogs are still buzzing over Apple’s recently filed lawsuit against HTC for patent infringement. In their filing, Apple claims that various HTC phones (including but not limited to phones running the Google Android OS) infringe a number of Apple’s patents currently used in […]