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Happy Holidays From IP Osgoode

Happy Holidays From IP Osgoode

Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, the Founder and Director of the new IP Intensive Program, and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. IP Osgoode wishes everyone a very Happy Holiday and a Creative New Year! We appreciate your interest and support over the past year and look forward […]

You Better Watch Out…For These Five Supreme Court Of Canada Cases

You Better Watch Out…For These Five Supreme Court Of Canada Cases

Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, the Founder and Director of the new IP Intensive Program, and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. This December copyright is coming to town!  Five historic hearings at the Supreme Court of Canada and a brand new copyright bill in Parliament have the […]

Patent Valuation Part 2: Combining Innovation Index and Product-Patent Clusters

Patent Valuation Part 2: Combining Innovation Index and Product-Patent Clusters

Dr. Ron Bouchard is an Associate Professor in the Faculties of Law and of Medicine at the University of Manitoba, a CIHR New Investigator and an IP Osgoode Research Affiliate. In Part 1, we learned that it is both possible and valuable to import empirical scientific methods typically used in the hard sciences to the […]

Finding The Law: Apple Disputes Domain Names Used For Porn Sites

Finding The Law: Apple Disputes Domain Names Used For Porn Sites

Brian Chau is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Apple commenced legal action in the WIPO against several domain names with obvious similarities to Apple products that host pornography instead of Apple-approved content. The domains in question are iphonecamforce.com, iphonecam4s.com, iphonesex4s.com, iphonexxxforce.com, iphone4s.com and porn4iphones.com, as reported by Domain Name Wire. To succeed, Apple […]

Stormy Weather Ahead: Enforcing Patent Rights In The “Cloud”

Stormy Weather Ahead: Enforcing Patent Rights In The “Cloud”

Jennifer Webb is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is enrolled in Professor Mgbeoji’s Patents class in Fall 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. Due to the nature of “cloud” infrastructure, companies filing patents for cloud based innovations […]

The Court Of Rome On Hosting Liability

The Court Of Rome On Hosting Liability

Giovanni Maria Riccio is a Professor of Private Comparative Law at the University of Salerno, a Partner at Scorza Riccio & Partners, Rome, Italy, and an IP Osgoode Research Affiliate. He is also an Editor of MediaLaws: Law and Policy of the Media in a Comparative Perspective, www.medialaws.eu. The re-posting of this analysis is part of […]

Prof Drassinower On "Copyright Infringement As Compelled Speech"

Prof Drassinower On "Copyright Infringement As Compelled Speech"

Featured here is a paper by Abraham Drassinower, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. The paper's abstract is reproduced. In his paper entitled, “Copyright Infringement as Compelled Speech”, Professor Abraham Drassinower offers a rights-based account of copyright law, providing an expansive conception of the public domain. Its central proposition is that a "work" […]