When one approaches the self-serve fountain drink machine at any given fast-food joint, it is usually safe to expect that the liquid beverage sputtering out of the “Coca-Cola®” nozzle would indeed be filling your cup with a Coca-Cola® product. But would one expect the same brand name association to be upheld in the restroom? In [...]

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Michael John Long is an LLM candidate advancing to the PhD at Osgoode Hall Law School
In his recent essay, Do Patents Have Gender? , intellectual property scholar Dan L Burk admits upfront that the title question ‘strikes many readers as improbable, even nonsensical.’  However, the posited question aims to introduce just how an intellectual property system, [...]

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Steven Zuccarelli is a 2012 JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School.
New York Senator Charles Schumer has recently unveiled the latest U.S attempt to protect innovative and novel fashion designs.  The Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act (IDPPPA), an amendment to the U.S Copyright Act, aims to curtail knockoffs of new fashion designs.  Sen. [...]

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Robert Dewald is a J.D. Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School�
Canadian telecommunications giant Research in Motion (RIM), which manufacturers the popular BlackBerry, has reportedly offered information and tools to assist India’s government in monitoring encrypted emails and messaging services (Reuters).  India, which had threatened to shut down the BlackBerry service, is the latest country to pursue [...]

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