Prof. Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder & Director of IP Osgoode and the IP Innovation Clinic, an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, and the Editor-in-Chief of the IPilogue and the Intellectual Property Journal.
IP Osgoode and the IP Innovation Clinic are thrilled to welcome you back on campus for the new school year! After almost 2 full years of completely virtual operations, we look forward to finally seeing our students and colleagues live in person! Here’s a preview of some of the activities you can get involved in over the next 8 months:
“IP Osgoode Speaks Series” is back in person!
Since 2008, we’ve hosted regular IP Osgoode Speaks lectures with guests from industry, academia, and the judiciary (including the Supreme Court of Canada) from Canada and around the world. After over 2 years in lockdown, we are proud to share that the IP Osgoode Speaks Series returned on 31 August 2022, welcoming Dan Bereskin to speak on “Balancing Freedom of Expression with Copyright and Trademark Rights: Art or Science?”
We look forward to hosting Dr. Lior Zemer, Dean of the Harry Radzyner Law School at Reichman University in Israel, in November to discuss “Art and Authorship in Extreme Circumstance: The Case for Nazi Ghettos.”
Please stay tuned for more details about Upcoming Events on our website and by subscribing to our weekly e-Newsletter, the IPIGRAM. You can also find recordings of our Past Events on our website.
IPilogue
Our IPilogue is one of Canada’s leading IP Blogs with an enthusiastic international following. To date, we have published almost 3000 original posts and over 1400 comments.
The number of visitors to our website and our weekly newsletter (The IPIGRAM) readership continue to grow and span the globe. Our diverse IPilogue Team continued to blog throughout the summer and constitute an important part of IP Osgoode’s team and vision to foster diverse views on intellectual property and technology matters. In order to keep abreast of the latest issues in IP and technology in Canada and around the world, and to learn more about IP Osgoode’s events and activities, please subscribe to the IPIGRAM and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
We are recruiting IPilogue Writers for this academic year. If you are interested in joining the IPilogue Team, please send your cover letter, CV, law school transcripts, and a writing sample to iposgoode@osgoode.yorku.ca by Friday 9 September 2022.
We will also continue to accept submissions on a guest basis. For more information about submitting articles to the IPilogue, click here.
IP Innovation Clinic
Now in its twelfth year of operation, the IP Innovation Clinic continues to complement Osgoode’s rich history of clinical offerings by providing students with an opportunity to gain hands-on, practical experience while learning about some common early-stage IP and business-related issues facing under-resourced inventors, entrepreneurs, and start-up companies.
To this end, we launched our AI-powered IP Innovation ChatBot, a free online service offering IP law information to users and further empowering creators with the tools to protect their IP. We look forward to continue to develop the IP Innovation ChatBot by expanding its knowledge base and making it more accessible, particularly to members of communities traditionally underrepresented in the IP innovation ecosystem. In the meantime, we encourage you to ask our ChatBot as many questions as possible. The more questions it receives, the better it becomes at answering them. You can learn more about it by watching the recording of our launch event here.
The IP Innovation Clinic continues to expand our client base and provide our students with a valuable and unique experiential learning opportunity. We are currently recruiting Clinic Fellows for the 2022-2023 academic term. If you are interested, please send your completed application to ipinnovationclinic@osgoode.yorku.ca by Wednesday 7 September 2022.
To stay up to date with Clinic activities, please follow us on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.
Oxford International Intellectual Property Law Moot & USPTO National Patent Application Drafting Competition
Following from the momentum of our third-place finish at last year’s Patent Application Drafting Competition, we will soon host tryouts for this year’s competition, as well as the Oxford International Intellectual Property Law Moot. Look out for our emails and social media posts to learn about how you can get involved in either competition.
Our Writing Competitions
Gowling WLG Best Blog in IP Law & Technology Prize
Each year, through the sponsorship of Gowling WLG, four prizes are awarded to full-time Osgoode students. The recipients for the 2021-2022 academic year were announced on the IP Osgoode website. Eligibility for the 2022-2023 Gowling Prize is officially open. All submissions by Osgoode JD students between now and the end of the Winter term will be considered for the prize.
Canada’s IP Writing Challenge
IP Osgoode, together with the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC), runs Canada’s IP Writing Challenge to further enhance intellectual property public policy research and discussion. This competition is open to three categories of entrants: JD students, LLM and PhD students, and practitioners.
The submission deadline is July 1 every year. This year, we received a wide range of entries from a broad spectrum of backgrounds and institutions across Canada. We thank all those who participated in the Writing Challenge. We are grateful to Dan Bereskin, Professor Ikechi Mgbeoji and Justice Roger Hughes for agreeing to judge the articles again this year. Stay tuned, as we will announce the Challenge winners in late October and open our next competition early next year, among various other initiatives.
A community is only as vibrant as its contributors. As we work and live amidst concerns about COVID-19, even while emerging from the lockdowns, we continue to confront complex and challenging debates in intellectual property and related areas of technology. Please share with us your ideas to enrich our program and to do our part to make a difference during these unprecedented times. Let us know if you would like to get more involved or if you would like to announce any IP & tech-related research projects or activities.
A community is only as strong and vibrant as its members, I welcome your ideas, projects and anything else you would like to see us do at IP Osgoode for more IP and tech fun!