Ikechi Mgbeoji is an Associate Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School and a member of IP Osgoode. For more than one hundred years, the branch of law known as intellectual property rights (IPRs) has been treated by universities and colleges in the Third World as an after-thought, an appendage to other disciplines of [...]

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Andrew Baker is a JD candidate at McGill University, Faculty of Law. Ashlee Froese, Osgoode Hall Law School alum of 2006 and IPilogue contributor, has launched CanadaFashionLaw.com, which has garnered immediate attention from both the fashion industry and the legal community, receiving over 500 unique hits in its first three days.

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Sebastian Talluri is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and a Fellow of the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) / IP Osgoode Innovation Clinic. On June 16, 2011, I attended MedEdge Summit 2011, York Region. The half-day MedEdge Summit was hosted by the municipality of Richmond Hill and sponsored by a number of organizations, including [...]

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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 [...]

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