Professor Geertrui Van Overwalle (University of Leuven, Belgium) has edited a new book entitled “Gene Patents and Collaborative Licensing Models — Patent Pools, Clearinghouses, Open Source Models and Liability Regimes”. The book is briefly described below. Concerns have been expressed that gene patents might result in restricted access to research and health care. The exponential […]
Dr. Ruth Corbin, Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall, and Managing Partner of CorbinPartners Inc., along with the Conference Board of Canada, have won the prestigious 2010 Murray Philp Prize for the project “Intellectual Property in the 21st Century.” The release of the report was previously announced on the IP Osgoode site in mid-February. The award was […]
Many of you will wish to take note of the fast approaching submission deadlines for Canada’s IP Writing Challenge and the IT.Can Student Writing Competition. Canada’s IP Writing Challenge is run by the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) and IP Osgoode. Law students, graduate students and professionals are all encouraged to participate. The deadline […]
The OBA Entertainment, Media & Communications Section is accepting submissions for the launch of the OBA Entertainment, Media & Communications Section Newsletter – Journal Edition (“Journal”). The Journal will provide OBA members, their clients and the academic community with substantive scholarly work exploring legal aspects of the entertainment, media and communications industries. The Journal, which will be circulated […]
Osgoode has been invited to participate in a biannual international treaty negotiation competition hosted by The Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen. This year, the subject of the Copenhagen Competition is international IP law: “Access to Medicines”.
Roger S. Fisher, Ph.D., J.D. teaches courses at York University on law, humanities and copyright policy. He is a member of the Bar of Ontario and is currently working on a project entitled “Antigone Rests Her Case: Law, Legal Discourses and Discourse Shifting in Sophocles’ Antigone.” The law has always had an uneasy relationship with […]
Richard Owens is counsel in a Toronto law firm specializing in business and commercial law, intellectual property and technology. This short comment analyses the results of the Government of Canada’s recent on-line public consultation on its planned reform of copyright laws, held from July 20th, 2009 to September 15th, 2009. Defects in the Consultation process […]
Ashlee Froese is an Osgoode Hall alumnus and currently practices intellectual property at the law firm of Keyser Mason Ball LLP. The “.co” domain name has long been a favourite of cybersquatters and typosquatters alike, individuals who profit off the misdirection of online traffic/consumers who intend to visit a specific brand’s online space [for example, […]
David Meurer is a PhD candidate in the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture at York and Ryerson Universities and Senior Research Assistant, Artmob. Artmob is a research project driven by several principles: that Canadians should have greater online access to publicly funded cultural collections; that Canadian cultural institutions have a responsibility to make […]
IP Osgoode is proud to announce the forthcoming publication of a new book edited by Lionel Bently (Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Cambridge), Catherine W Ng (Lecturer of Law at the University of Aberdeen), and Giuseppina D’Agostino (Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School in Canada).