IP Osgoode coordinates and hosts a rich array of research, teaching, and professional events for students, scholars, and the IP community.
IP Osgoode Speaks!
The IP Osgoode Speaks! series invites leading scholars and professionals working in the field of IP law and technology to present their current projects, works-in-progress, and recent publications to the IP Osgoode community, in person and online.
Copyright, Openness, and Inequities: Licensing African Datasets
3 October 2024
Speaker: Dr. Chijioke Okorie, founder of the Data Science Law Lab and Assistant Professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Professor Okorie’s presentation identified inequities in existing open licenses for African datasets and propose guiding principles for an alternative approach.
Additional comments were offered by York University’s Professor Tesh Dagne, Ontario Research Chair in Governing AI.
A Zoom video of this hybrid event is available here.
The Dabus Story: Can an AI be an Inventor?
22 Nov 2023
Speakers: Professor Ryan Abbott, University of Surrey School of Law, is leading the international litigation to establish whether DABUS, an AI, can be designated as an inventor under IP law.
Professor Abbott was joined in this panel discussion by Professor and IP Osgoode Director Carys Craig, and leading Canadian lawyers Reshika Dhir and Paul Blizzard (Bereskinn & Parr LLP).
Discussants: Osgoode graduate students Divyaa Dhankar (who was also the organizer of the event), Luna Xiaolu Li and Shadi Nasseri.
A Zoom video of this hybrid event will be available here shortly.
