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Government of Canada Has Officially Extended Copyright Terms

Policy Perspective on Reconciliation – My Placement at Indigenous Services Canada

Your Child is Being Watched: EdTech and Children’s Privacy Part 2

Your Child is Being Watched: EdTech and Children’s Privacy Part 1

Former Cola-Cola Employee Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison for Trade Secret Theft

The Government of Canada establishes the College of Patent Agents and Trademark Agents

IP Intensive Program: “Intellectual Property Policy is All IC” Reflecting on a Semester at Industry Canada

My time at Industry Canada as an IP Intensive student intern last fall was spent working within the Strategic Policy Sector (SPS), and more specifically a sub-group within the SPS called the Copyright and Trade-mark Policy Directorate (CTPD). The CTPD, along with the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), is responsible for […]

IP Intensive Progam: Taking Culture, Copyright, and Creators Seriously - A Semester at the Ministry of Canadian Heritage

Legislative reform does not happen overnight, especially when it comes to a polarized domain of law like copyright.  Legal policy analysts are integral to this process of reform, and this past semester, as a student in Osgoode’s Intellectual Property & Technology Law Intensive Program, I was fortunate enough to spend 10 weeks with one of […]

No Man (or Government Entity) is Above the Law

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently released a combined opinion regarding the ability of government entities to register their official seal. The decision of In Re: City of Houston serves as a reminder of the substantial differences between Canadian and American trade-mark law.

For Your Eyes Only: American Science Scandal Brings Possession of Scientific Data to Forefront

When Judy Mikovits had a ‘keystone’ scientific discovery widely discredited, resulting in the loss of her job, it is unlikely that she considered the state of the intellectual property laws governing the work that she performed for her former employer, the Whittemore Peterson Institute (WPI). However, in November 2011, following the initiation of civil action […]