Amanda Carpenter is a JD Student at Osgoode Hall Law School and Katrina Leung is a JD Student at Queen’s University. On 6 November 2009, IP Osgoode and the Institute for Feminist Legal Studies jointly organized the second annual Women and IP Roundtable. Gowlings Lafleur Henderson LLP hosted the event at their downtown Toronto office. […]
Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director IP Osgoode. Michel Gérin is the Executive Director of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada. IP Osgoode and the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada are proud to announce the winners of Canada’s IP Writing Challenge: 1. Law student category – Kiernan Murphy, “Post-expiry Patent Losses: Recoverable, but […]
Brandon Evenson is a 2010 JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Last Thursday, IP Osgoode hosted Dr. Jacqueline Lipton, Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University, to give a talk on privacy and the challenges of the new Web 2.0 culture. Professor Lipton began her talk characterizing the differences between Web 1.0 and […]
Brandon Evenson is a 2010 JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. He holds a degree in Computer Engineering from Queen’s University. Prior to attending Osgoode, Mr. Evenson consulted for some of the world’s leading technology firms in the area of contract risk and licensing compliance. Last Thursday, IP Osgoode hosted Chris Castle, managing partner […]
Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode and an Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. IP Osgoode has a number of illustrious visitors this semester who will be participating in our lecture series “IP Osgoode Speaks” as well as a part of the second annual Women and IP Roundtable (presented with The Institute […]
Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Last Wednesday the Centre for Innovation Law & Policy and IP Osgoode jointly welcomed William Patry to speak at University of Toronto’s Flavelle House. A prolific copyright scholar, former US government policy advisor and current Senior Copyright Counsel to Google, Patry spoke for about […]
George Nathanael is a second-year JD student at Osgoode Hall Law School On a beautiful Friday at the Schulich School of Business, IP Osgoode presented “The Intellectual Property Bargain: Consumer Perspectives in a Global Economy“. This one-day conference brought together academics, practicing lawyers, and students to participate in presentations and discussions that aimed to infuse […]
James Gannon is an Osgoode Hall alumnus and is currently an articling student at McCarthy Tétrault. Jonathan Frydman recently completed his second year of the J.D. program at Osgoode Hall Law School. James and Jonathan took notes at a recent conference they attended and they report on the speaker presentations in this blog. On Friday, […]
A common joke amongst Canadian copyright lawyers goes something like this: What do copyright reform and hot dogs have in common? You don’t want to see how either of them are made. Despite this light-hearted warning, last Thursday IP Osgoode hosted Glen Bloom from Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, who delivered a guest lecture entitled […]
On March 23, the Toronto Intellectual Property Group and IP Osgoode hosted Mario Bouchard, General Counsel for the Copyright Board of Canada, as a guest speaker at a dinner event in downtown Toronto. Mr. Bouchard focused his discussion on four issues: the role of the Board, copyright fragments, factors causing the Board’s increased workload, and […]