The Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) and IP Osgoode are delighted to announce our 2013 Canadian writing challenge in intellectual property law.

We are excited to be running our fifth annual writing challenge.  Our goal is to further enhance thoughtful and well-researched intellectual property public policy scholarship and discussion. We encourage a broad range of perspectives and topics can be from within the various categories of intellectual property law including patents, trade-marks, industrial design and copyright.

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IP Osgoode and the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) are thrilled to announce the winners of the third annual edition of Canada’s IP Writing Challenge:

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The Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) and IP Osgoode are delighted to announce our 2012 Canadian writing challenge in intellectual property law.

We are pleased to be running our third annual writing challenge.  Our goal is to further enhance thoughtful and well-researched intellectual property public policy scholarship and discussion. We encourage a broad range of perspectives, and topics can be from within the various categories of intellectual property law including patents, trade-marks, industrial design and copyright.

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Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode. Michel Gérin is the Executive Director of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada.

IP Osgoode and the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) are thrilled to announce the winners of the third annual edition of Canada’s IP Writing Challenge:

1. In the Law Student category, Robert Mysicka won for his entry: “Exclusion versus Control: The Competition Dimensions of Intellectual Property Rights”. The author graduated from Queen’s University Faculty of Law and is currently articling at Stikeman Elliott LLP in Ottawa.
2. In the Professional category, Erin Engelhardt won for her entry: “The Difference between Discovery and Invention in Biomolecules and Biologicals”. The author practices in the area of patents at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP in Ottawa.
3. In the Graduate Student category, the judges did not select a winner for this year’s Challenge.

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