Matt Lonsdale is a graduate of the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. The US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit has affirmed that the “first sale” doctrine of US copyright law, codified as section 109(a) of the Copyright Act, does not apply to works manufactured outside of the United States.
Dan Whalen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On August 17, 2011, Health Canada released proposed revisions to its Guidance Document: Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations for stakeholder consultation. In a welcome effort to bring greater efficiency to the drug approval process, the proposed revisions exempt administrative drug submissions from compliance […]
Teresa Scassa is the Canada Research Chair in Information Law at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. The publication of the second edition of David Vaver’s Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patents, Trade-Marks is a welcome event. The first edition of this book, published in 1997,was a lucid and concise account of the three main […]
Amelia Manera is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and an IP Osgoode Student Intern in the inaugural Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program (IP Intensive). On Friday, September 9, 2011, members of IP Osgoode, participants of the inaugural IP Law & Technology Intensive Program, IP enthusiasts, along with friends and family, gathered […]
Joshua Dallmann is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and an IP Osgoode Student Intern in the inaugural Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program (IP Intensive). On September 8, 2011, members of the intellectual property law community gathered at the Toronto offices of Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP to celebrate the release of […]
Amelia Manera is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On August 16, 2011, the US Court of Appeal released the decision of Cybersource Corporation v Retail Decisions Inc. reinforcing that a process that can be done merely by a series of mental steps is not patentable subject matter under s.101 of Title 35 […]
Andrew Baker is a LLB/BCL candidate at McGill University Faculty of Law. A New York court has recently ruled against EMI Music’s claims that online music provider, MP3Tunes’s techniques violate the 1998 Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). The ruling moves one step further in parsing out a legal grey area regarding how the copyright rules […]
Danny Titolo is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Federal Court of Appeal upheld the trial decision of Justice Gauthier in Phostech v. Valence ruling in favour of Valence Technology on a patent infringement lawsuit involving carbothermal reduction technology (CTR).
Taylor Vanderhelm is a JD candidate at the University of Alberta. The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), an independent public authority that regulates and supervises broadcasting and telecommunications in Canada, recently released a report detailing the present and estimated future state of the communications industry in Canada. The report offers several illuminating and surprising […]
Brent Randall is a JD candidate at the University of Ottawa. On August 15, 2011, Google announced that it would be acquiring Motorola Mobility which will enhance the capabilities of their Android operating system for smartphones. While the purchase of Motorola gives Google the ability to produce hardware optimised for their software, commentators have wondered […]