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A.I. Paintings: Registrable Copyright? Lessons from Ankit Sahni

Govind Kumar Chaturvedi is an IPilogue Writer and an LLM graduate from Osgoode Hall Law School. We sat down to chat about how he registered Suryast in Canada. Mr. Sahni told me that he had been inspired by Ryan Abbott’s DABUS, to take on this intellectual property legal experiment. I wanted to learn more about […]

IPIC and National Research Council Collaborates to Create the IP Assist Program for SMEs

Gregory Hong is an IPilogue Writer and a 1L JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) and the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) have partnered to offer the IP Assist program for Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises (“SMEs”). IPilogue readers may have seen Serena Nath’s recent coverage of another CIC program, ElevateIP, […]

The US Copyright Office Clarifies that Copyright Protection Does Not Extend to (Exclusively) AI-Generated Work

Katie Graham is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School In March 2022, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (“CIPO”) allowed its first artificial intelligence (AI)-authored copyright registration of a painting co-created by the AI tool, RAGHAV Painting App (“RAGHAV”), and the IP lawyer who created RAGHAV, Ankit Sahni. RAGHAV is the […]

Statutory Interpretation of the Lanham Act Provides a Path to Bypass the Hague Convention

Anita Gogia is a IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On November 14 2022, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in San Antonio Winery Inc v Jiaxing Micarose Trade Co Ltd (“Jiaxing”) that foreign parties to a trademark infringement complaint can be served by trademark owners […]

Mickey Mouse to Enter Public Domain in 2024

Serena Nath is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Every year on January 1, works protected under copyright law enter into the public domain due to their copyright protection expiring. Thus, as a new year approaches, those in the field of copyright look to see which works will […]

Working In-House at a Start-up: an Interview with Kevin Keller

Sally Yoon is an IPilogue Writer and a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Kevin Keller is General Counsel at Super, a Series B startup with business verticals in travel, fintech and commerce. Before Super, Keller worked at many notable technological companies, such as Facebook, Microsoft, Instacart and Amazon. He is a first-generation […]