Mark Kohras is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Every year, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) releases its Special 301 Report. The report provides a detailed list of countries that the United States believes are deficient when it comes to intellectual property laws or enforcement. Perhaps it is no […]
Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. The Chairs of the WIPO copyright consultation meetings held in April recently issued reports on two copyright treaties that are currently being negotiated: the draft Treaty on the Protection of Audiovisual Performances and the draft Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations.
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Jeffrey O’Brien is a JD candidate at the University of Alberta. On election day many voters discussed results before the polls closed, but broadcasting such conversations to the public would violate s. 329 of the Canada Elections Act.
Pauline Wong is Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. The Supreme Court of Canada announced today that The Right Honourable Justice Ian Binnie and The Right Honourable Justice Louise Charron will be retiring from the Court. This opens up two vacancies on the bench for Stephen Harper’s majority government to fill by their planned retirements on […]
Taylor Vanderhelm is a JD candidate at the University of Alberta. Recently, Apple garnered unwanted attention when it was discovered by security researchers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden that the iPhone was recording location and time stamp data through its GPS and wireless internet capabilities and then backing up the information, unencrypted, whenever users synced […]
Matt Lonsdale is a JD candidate at Dalhousie University. On April 15, 2011, a Texas court ordered Google to pay $5 million to Bedrock Computer Technologies for patent infringement. The patent covers a method of storing and retrieving data which is claimed to be used in a number of versions of the Linux kernel.
Kalen Lumsden is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On the eve of Canada’s federal election, the CBC published two U.S. diplomatic cables obtained by Wikileaks on federal party leaders. Both written in 2009, the cables address perceptions and characterizations of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and former leader of the official opposition, Michael […]
Leslie Chong is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The legal battle between Mattel and MGA Entertainment, Inc. has come one step closer to ending. Despite the seven-year legal saga between Mattel (owner of the classic Barbie doll) and MGA Entertainment (owner of the modern pouty-lipped Bratz dolls), the latter has come out […]
Michael Gilburt is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. CBC News reports that a group of assailants known as the “Turkish defacers” successfully hacked into the web domain shared by the Ontario Court of Appeal, Superior Court of Justice and Ontario Court of Justice. On April 25, 2011, users who attempted to access […]