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Blanket Censorship: Limiting the Bycatch

Brian Chau is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. A significant problem that arises with internet censorship comes from the sheer volume and infinite forms of data generated on a daily basis across the world. An analogy can be drawn to the practical realities of commercial fishing – for every net cast into […]

Could we end up paying to subvert our privacy rights?

Virgil Cojocaru is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Ms. Jennifer Stoddart, in a letter to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security concludes that the Investigative Powers for the 21st Century Act (Bill C-46) and the Technical Assistance for Law Enforcement in the 21st Century […]

Announcing the winners of Canada’s inaugural IP Writing Challenge

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 […]

It’s not me, it’s you

Brian Chau is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall. e-Government, e-Commerce, online banking, Facebook – What do these have in common? All these services and functions are made possible by the fact that they are able to associate our activities with our identities. As our reliance on technology continues to grow, the ability to authenticate […]

The 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey

Brian Chau is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Given the essential role that entrepreneurs play in driving the economy, there is no question that the creation of patent laws must take into account the protection of their interests. From a small business perspective, patents play a large role not only in helping protect their inventions […]

India’s Pre-Grant Patent Oppositions – A True Remedy?

Nigel D’Souza is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. I have finally returned home to Toronto after spending three difficult months in India. I have travelled to India before but never during the summer. Unfortunately, there was a drought during my stay in Delhi, with temperatures hovering around fifty degrees celsius on a […]

Upcoming IP Osgoode Events and Guest Lectures

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 […]

Assessing the Impact on Entrepreneurial Outcomes of Publicly Funded Business Advisory Services

Douglas Cumming is an Associate Professor in Finance and Entrepreneurship at the Schulich School of Business, York University. Eileen Fischer is a Professor of Marketing at the Schulich School of Business, York University. In both developed and developing countries, governments are interested in fostering entrepreneurial activity in their economies.  And increasingly, public policy makers are […]

Introducing the 2009-2010 IPilogue team

Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode and an Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. Our 2009-2010 academic year at IP Osgoode is off to a very busy start and we are very pleased to have our new team of IPilogue Editors on board.  Our IPilogue Editors come from a wide variety […]

Interbrand’s Best Global Brands 2009: The Expected and Unexpected

Lorraine Fleck is a Toronto, Ontario lawyer and trade-mark agent who practices advertising and marketing, contest, copyright, packaging and labeling, privacy and trade-mark law. Interbrand has released its report of the 100 Best Global Brands 2009. The ranking is based on the following criteria: Publicly available financial data. This means that brands owned by privately […]