Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director IP Osgoode. Michel Gérin is the Executive Director of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada. The Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) and IP Osgoode are delighted to announce our 2010 Canadian writing challenge in intellectual property law. After a successful inaugural year, we are pleased to be running the […]
Emir Aly Crowne-Mohammed is an Assistant Professor at the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law and Co-Chair of the Fox Moot Committee. Cristina Mihalceanu is a Third Year Law Student at the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law and Member of the Fox Moot Committee. The inaugural launch of the Harold G. Fox Moot, which […]
Virgil Cojocaru is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. These days governments are funding private sector enterprises. The public purse is increasingly used to aid businesses. However, many questions remain about the effectiveness of such a strategy. Josh Lerner, in his book, Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and […]
Nirav Bhatt is an LLM candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The World Health Organization (WHO), last week witnessed tumultuous questions from various nations at the meeting of Executive Board Members of WHO on the outcomes of an Expert Working Group on Research and Development Financing (EWG) which raised concerns about methods of work employed […]
Peter Waldkirch is a second year LL.B. student at the University of Ottawa. SciDev.net, a website providing “news, views and information about science, technology and the developing world” recently covered a move by Peru’s National Institute of Culture to declare the techniques for farming a variety of giant white maize, paraqay sara in the Quechua […]
Nathan Fan is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The debate on network neutrality between network providers and content providers saw a moment of consolidation when the internet’s big name adversaries, Google and Verizon, submitted a joint submission regarding their views of an “Open Internet” to the Federal Communications Commission on 14 January […]
Brian Chau is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall. Special thanks to the panelists for contributing their perspectives and insight to the Osgoode community, and to Amanda Carpenter who has assisted me in writing this synopsis. THE EVENT On Wednesday January 27 2010, the IP club at Osgoode Hall Law School held a career panel […]
Virgil Cojocaru is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Google recently surprised the world by announcing it may pull out of China. In the meantime, it would no longer enforce China’s information suppression and screening platform. Ultimately, if Google leaves China, it will do so because the country’s government would not tolerate Google […]
Lorraine Fleck is a Toronto, Canada lawyer and trade-mark agent who practices advertising and marketing, information technology, intellectual property and packaging and labeling law at Hoffer Adler LLP. The Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (BIA) and Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) were recently amended. One of the amendments provides IP licensees with more certainty regarding the […]
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In a recent Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice article, Jeremy Phillips writes about how a ‘repeat order’ is one of the most sought after goals in business, which signals that the business has done something right. A ‘repeat order’ is defined as […]