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Professor Giuseppina D'Agostino on The Agenda with Steve Paikin

IP Osgoode is pleased to announce that our very own  Professor Giuseppina D'Agostino, Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, was featured on last Tuesday's episode of The Agenda with Steve Paikin entitled "Is Innovation History?" The full video is available below.

Equitable Copyright on The Table

A recent Ontario Superior Court ruling has attracted the attention of the copyright law community. On January 24th Master Abrams allowed the Delta Hotels v. Backus-Naur et al. motion pleading equitable ownership of copyright, an equity doctrine in many Commonwealth countries that is currently not legally recognized in Canada.

Mario Bouchard: Copyright Quintet opus 1. no.1, by McLachlin et al

On January 28, 2013, to a room full of intellectual property lawyers at an ALAI Canada luncheon meeting, IP Osgoode Advisory Board Member Mario Bouchard, general counsel to  the Copyright Board of Canada, presented his analysis of the initial impact of the Supreme Court' of Canada's copyright pentalogy and the portion of the Copyright Modernization Act […]

The Teva Experience: A Semester in Osgoode's IP Intensive Program

As part of Osgoode’s Intellectual Property Law Intensive Program, I had the opportunity to spend ten weeks at Teva Canada working with in-house counsel. Teva Canada is one of Canada’s largest generic pharmaceutical companies that also has a brand division focusing on the development of innovative products in several therapeutic areas.

'Lock Your Knees': Yoga Sequences Not Copyrightable

December was a busy month for yoga guru Bikram Choudhury. On December 14, 2012, the United States District Court of the Central District of California granted a partial Summary Judgment in favour of Evolation Yoga in the case of Bikram's Yoga College of India v Evolation. The judgment came just weeks after a joint press release, filed on December […]

IP Osgoode Speaker Series Videos

IP Osgoode would like to thank The Honourable Justice Marshall Rothstein and The Honourable Mr. Justice Roger T. Hughes for being a part of our speaker series. They both provided thought provoking commentary on intellectual property litigation from a judicial perspective.  For those who were unable to attend our speaker series events in person, analysis […]