Robert Dewald is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School On May 12, 2010 the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) responded to several questions posed by the President of the EPO, Ms Alison Brimelow, regarding the patentability of computer programs in Europe.  The resounding answer to these questions, provided [...]

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Ashlee Froese is an Osgoode Hall alumnus and currently practices intellectual property at the law firm of Keyser Mason Ball LLP. For the first time since 2006, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) has been asked to clarify on important trade-mark law principles.  The Supreme Court of Canada  has granted leave to hear an appeal [...]

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Nathan Fan is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. At this year’s Canada 3.0 conference, over 2,000 members of the private, public and academic sectors gathered together in hopes of forging actionable ideas that could bring Canada’s digital media industry into the global forefront. As keynote speaker, Tony Chapman (CEO of Capital C) [...]

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Michael John Long is an LLM candidate advancing to the PhD at Osgoode Hall Law School In their recent article, Copyright as Tort, authors Avihay Dorfman and Assaf Jacob argue towards a more comprehensive tort based analysis for copyright law than has been offered so far.  The authors argue very matter of factly ‘that copyright [...]

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