Events Archive
Mar 22, 2013 – “Sparking Innovation with Students: Examining the Student Role from Invention to Commercialization”
A full day conference co-hosted by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office and IP Osgoode examining the different perspectives on the role of student researchers in commercializing IP and the different policies that have been adopted to provide for the various parties’ interests with respect to that IP.
Program: Read the conference program and speaker bios here
IPilogue: Read event coverage and commentary here
Webcast: Archived video webcast available here
Feb 13, 2013 – IP Osgoode Speaker Series: Douglas Pepper
A presentation by Douglas Pepper, VP at Random House Canada and Publisher at Signal/McClelland & Stewart, on Books Are Dead. Long Live Books!
IPilogue: Read event coverage and commentary here.
Webcast: Archived video webcast available here.
Dec 6, 2012 – IP Intensive Cocktail Reception Hosted & Sponsored by Gowlings Lafleur Henderson LLP
IP Osgoode celebrated the end of another successful year of the IP Intensive program at a cocktail reception generously hosted and sponsored by Gowlings Lafleur Henderson LLP. This was a great social and networking event which brought together past and current IP Intensive students, representatives from the IP Intensive placement organizations, members of the IP Osgoode Advisory Board, and lawyers from Gowlings.
Nov 29, 2012 – IP Osgoode Speaker Series: The Honourable Mr. Justice Roger T. Hughes
A presentation by Justice Roger T. Hughes of the Federal Court of Canada on Advocacy Skills and IP: Observations from the Bench.
IPilogue: Read event coverage and commentary here.
Webcast: Archived video webcast available here.
Nov 27, 2012 – IP Osgoode Speaker Series: The Honourable Mr. Justice Marshall Rothstein
A presentation by Justice Marshall Rothstein of the Supreme Court of Canada on Reflections on the Supreme Court of Canada 2012 Copyright Decisions.
IPilogue: Read event coverage and commentary here.
Webcast: Archived video webcast available here.
Sept 13, 2012 – IP Osgoode and OPD Joint Teleseminar on the Copyright Pentalogy from the SCC, Critical Cases Update
Moderator: Prof. Giuseppina D’Agostino, Founder & Director of IP Osgoode
Panellists: Barry Sookman (Partner, McCarthy Tetrault LLP), Casey Chisick (Partner, Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP), and Bradley Limpert (Partner, Ridout & Maybee LLP).
Sept 13, 2012 – IP Osgoode Fourth Birthday Celebration
IP Osgoode celebrated it’s 4th year in operation with a bash complete with balloons, delicious cake, and live entertainment from spoken word artist, Anthony Cortese. Dean Lorne Sossin delivered the opening remarks and congratulated Prof. Giuseppina D’Agostino, Founder & Director of IP Osgoode, on her leadership and success with IP Osgoode.
Mar 22, 2012 – IP Osgoode Speaker Series: Robert Levine and Dr. Brett Danaher
Robert Levine, author of Free Ride: How the Internet is Destroying the Culture Business and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back
Dr. Brett Danaher, author of The Effect of Graduated Response Anti-Piracy Laws on Music Sales: Evidence from an Event Study in France
IPilogue: Read event coverage and commentary here.
Webcast: Archived video webcast available here.
Feb 6, 2012 – “OCE Technology Transfer Partnership Forum – Innvation Clinic Presentation”
Ed Fan, Partner of Torys LLP
Click here to view the presentation.
Nov 9, 2011 – “Intellectual Property – Is it Worth Protecting?“
Co-hosted with ventureLAB and Miller Thomson LLP, this workshop equipped participants with knowledge of IP strategies. Workshop leaders included Prof Giuseppina D’Agostino, Osgoode Hall Law School and Founder & Director of IP Osgoode, Eugene Gierczak of Miller Thomson LLP and Asad Ali Moten, Osgoode law student.
Oct 21, 2011 – “Can Canada Learn Anything From Europe? European Perspectives on Copyright Law in the Information Era”
IP Osgoode’s copyright conference at the Ottawa Convention Centre in Ottawa, Canada was a huge success!
Program: Read the conference program and speaker bios here
IPilogue: Read event coverage and commentary here (see lecture slides here)
Webcast: Archived video webcast available here
For full details of the conference, click here.
We tweeted and were retweeted. Look for Twitter handle @IPilogue and hashtag #EUCanCopyright. There was extensive coverage online by other publications and bloggers:
Professor Roger Fisher, Department of Humanities, York University
Webcast: Archived video webcast available here
Professor Graham Dutfield, Professor of International Governance at the University of Leeds
Webcast: Archived video webcast available here (Windows Media Video)
Mar 16, 2010 – “Workshop on Media Suppression: Life and Livelihood”
This unique half-day workshop presented by IP Osgoode and the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime & Security featured experts who discussed issues of libel, digital rights, the role of Internet giants in totalitarian states and legal recourse for the torture, kidnapping and murder of journalists.
IPilogue: Read event coverage and commentary here
Webcast: Conference agenda and archived video webcast available here
March 4, 2010 – “What is the digital future for the entertainment industry? A Discussion of Global Opportunities and Challenges”
IPilogue: Read event coverage and commentary here
Feb 11, 2010 – “Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Commercialization of Intellectual Property”
This unique half-day conference presented by IP Osgoode and the Hennick Centre for Business and Law featured experts who discussed obstacles and opportunities for entrepreneurs and innovators who wish to commercialize their intellectual property.
IPilogue: Read event coverage and commentary here
Webcast: Conference agenda, webcast and powerpoint presentations available here
Professor Jacqueline Lipton, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
IPilogue: Read event coverage and commentary here (see Powerpoint slides here)
Mr. Justice Marshall Rothstein, Supreme Court of Canada
IPilogue: Read event coverage and commentary here (see Powerpoint slides here)
Professor Graeme Dinwoodie, University of Oxford
IPilogue: Read event coverage and commentary here (see Powerpoint slides here)
Webcast: Click here (Windows Media Video)
Oct 22, 2009 – “Voluntary Collective Licensing”
Christian Castle, Managing Partner of Christian L. Castle Attorneys
IPilogue: Read event coverage and commentary here
Webcast: Click here (Windows Media Video)
Sept 18, 2009 – “The Intellectual Property Bargain: Consumer Perspectives in a Global Economy”
IP Osgoode held a thought provoking conference in which panelists approached patent, trade-mark, copyright law, and its interaction with competition law, from the perspective of consumers.
IPilogue: Read event coverage and commentary here
Webcast: Conference agenda, webcast and powerpoint presentations available here
Apr 2, 2009 – “The Evolution of Copyright Reform in Canada”
Glen Bloom (Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP) delivered a guest lecture in which he discussed how copyright reform has evolved in Canada from a rather esoteric subject as late as the mid 1980s to a grass roots phenomena today.
IPilogue: Read lecture coverage and commentary here
Webcast: Click here (Windows Media Video)
Mar 23, 2009 – “What’s new at the Copyright Board of Canada?”
The Toronto Intellectual Property Group, in conjunction with IP Osgoode, presented Mario Bouchard, General Counsel for the Copyright Board of Canada as its guest speaker. Mr. Bouchard spoke about the Board, its role and the challenges it faces as it deals with a wide range of issues such as copyright law reform, tariffs, collective associations and music on the Internet.
IPilogue: Read event coverage and commentary here
Mar 20, 2009 – Commercialization of innovative research: Implementing solutions that work for Canada
IP Osgoode held a conference which featured a variety of multi-disciplinary speakers who will discuss various aspects of IP commercialization, patenting, entrepreneurship and technology transfer.
IPilogue: Read event coverage and commentary here
Webcast: Conference agenda, webcast and powerpoint presentations available here
Mar 13, 2009 - Business Method Patents: Bilski and Beyond
IP Osgoode hosted a panel discussion exploring the effect in Canada of recent US business method patent jurisprudence.
Chair:
Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino, Osgoode Hall Law School
Panelists:
- Paul Fitzner, Patent Appeal Board, Canadian Intellectual Property Office
- Professor Ikechi Mgbeoji, Osgoode Hall Law School (Powerpoint: Dialogue Across the 49th Parallel – Does US Jurisprudence Influence Canadian Patent Law?)
- Robert Nakano, Partner, McCarthy Tétrault (Powerpoint: Post-Bilski Patent Prosecution)
- Krishna Pathiyal, Director of IP, Research in Motion (Powerpoint: Business Methods: Patentable? No, yes, maybe. Implications?)
- Andrew Reddon, Partner, McCarthy Tétrault (Powerpoint: Business Method Patents and Canadian Courts)
IPilogue: Read event coverage and commentary here
Mar 13, 2009 - 11th Annual Entertainment & Sports Law Conference
IP Osgoode sponsored a panel discussion on: “Copyright in the Remix Era”
- Reuven Ashtar of Borden Ladner Gervais
- Marcus Bornfreund of Creative Commons
- Casey Chisick of Cassels Brock
- Brett Gaylor, a Canadian film director from Montreal
IPilogue: Read event coverage and commentary here and here
Feb 20, 2009 - Harold G. Fox Moot
IPilogue: Read event coverage and commentary here and here
Feb 19, 2009 - Osgoode IP and Technology Society’s Annual Career Panel
IPilogue: Read event coverage and commentary here
Dec 11, 2008 – “IP: Perspectives from the Video-Game Industry”
Jason Kee, Director of Policy & Legal Affairs, Entertainment Software Association of Canada
IPilogue: Read event coverage and commentary here
Dec 9, 2008 – “Patent Specifications, Claim Construction and Patent Infringement”
Ron Dimock and Adrian Kaplan, Dimock Stratton LLP
Nov 26, 2008 - “Reforming IP Law: An Obvious and Not-so-obvious Agenda”
Professor David Vaver delivered the prestigious IPI 2008 Stephen Stewart Lecture entitled “Reforming IP Law: An Obvious and Not-so-obvious Agenda” to over 150 attendees in London, UK.
Click here to read the paper he presented. The final version of this paper will be published in (2009) Intellectual Property Quarterly.
Nov 25, 2008 – “Made in Canada: Why creativity and invention must become the life blood of our economy”
Tony Chapman, Founder and CEO of Capital C Marketing Group
IPilogue: Read event coverage and commentary here
Nov 7, 2008 – Women and IP Roundtable: “Is everything rosy in here or is the glass ceiling tinted pink?”
CHAIR:
Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino (Osgoode Hall Law School)
PANELISTS:
Susan Abramovitch (Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP)
Professor Ann Bartow (University of South Carolina)
Darlene H. Carreau (Trade-marks Opposition Board)
May Cheng (Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP)
Professor Carys Craig (Osgoode Hall Law School)
Virginia H.L. Jones (Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association)
Sangeetha Punniyamoorthy (Dimock Stratton LLP)
The Honourable Justice Karen M. Weiler (Court of Appeal for Ontario)
COMMENTATOR:
Pascale Chapdelaine (PhD candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School)
SPECIAL LECTURE:
“The Intersection of Copyright and Pornography” by Professor Ann Bartow (University of South Carolina)
IPilogue: Read event coverage and commentary here
Nov 4, 2008 – “The Scope of a Patent: Claim Construction and Equivalents”
Lord Justice Jacob (Court of Appeal for England and Wales)
Webcast: Click here (Windows Media Video)
IPilogue: Read event coverage and commentary here
Oct 15, 2008 – Official Launch of IP Osgoode
The public launch of IP Osgoode took place at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto in conjunction with the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC).
View IP Osgoode’s introductory video below:
Mar 5, 2008– “Facing up to Facebook: The Fight for Fair Copyright in Canada”
Professor Michael Geist (University of Ottawa)
Webcast: Click here (Windows Media Video)
Nov 7, 2007 – “Legal Transplants in the Digital Age”
Professor Peter Yu (Drake University Law School)
Webcast: Click here (Windows Media Video)
Oct 24, 2007 – “Chocolate, Copyright, Confusion: Intellectual Property and the Supreme Court of Canada”
Professor David Vaver
Webcast: Click here (Windows Media Video)
<p><strong>November 9, 2011<br/>
<em>Intellectual Property – Is it Worth Protecting?</em></strong><br/>
This workshop will equip participants with knowledge of IP strategies.
Workshop leaders include <strong>Prof Giuseppina D’Agostino</strong>, Osgoode Hall Law School and Founder & Director of IP Osgoode, and <strong>Asad Ali Moten</strong>, Osgoode law student.<br/>
8:00am-12:00pm, Markham Convergence Centre, 7271 Warden Ave, Markham, Canada.
Click for <a href=”http://venturelab.ca/venturelab-events/event/intellectual-property-is-it-worth-protecting/” Target=”_blank”>details</a>.</p>
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