Kalen Lumsden is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Committee on the Impact of Copyright Policy on Innovation in the Digital Era is using some of the innovations of the digital era to vet drafts of research papers it commissioned. Through posting the drafts on its blog and asking for comments, the […]
Kalen Lumsden is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On June 1, 2011, Pfizer, manufacturer of the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra, filed suit against rival Watson Pharmaceuticals to frustrate its attempts to produce a generic version of the drug. The next day Watson confirmed that it had applied to the US Food and […]
Kalen Lumsden is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On 24 May 2011 the European Commission released a communication to the European Parliament addressing the shortcomings and challenges of the current intellectual property rights regime. It proposes that a single, unified market address fragmentation problems and regulatory barriers in the European Intellectual Property […]
Kalen Lumsden is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Radio Systems Corp. v. Accession, Inc., No. 10-1390 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 25, 2011) overrules a 2003 decision that sending a cease-and-desist letter to an infringing party in another state was sufficient to grant the addressee’s state jurisdiction over the owner in future patent enforcement.
Kalen Lumsden is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. According to a report released last week by Sandvine, 29.7% of all downstream internet traffic during peak hours in North America is from the online video streaming service Netflix. Old-fashioned web browsing accounted for only 17% of traffic due to the high bandwidth requirements […]
Kalen Lumsden is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Andrew Crossley, the sole practitioner of ACS:Law has been fined £1000 for failing to properly secure the personal details of file-sharers targeted by his firm. Among the information leaked was the identities of individuals ACS:Law had threatened with legal action for file-sharing pornography.
Kalen Lumsden is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On the eve of Canada’s federal election, the CBC published two U.S. diplomatic cables obtained by Wikileaks on federal party leaders. Both written in 2009, the cables address perceptions and characterizations of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and former leader of the official opposition, Michael […]
Kalen Lumsden is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and currently enrolled in the course Law & Social Change: Law & Music, in Winter 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. Over 30 days in January and February of 2011, Google received […]