Gowlings Best Blog in IP Law and Technology Prize

The prizes were pioneered in Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino’s Intellectual Property class in Fall 2007 and have been generously sponsored each year since then by Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP. Four prizes in total are awarded each year to full-time Osgoode Hall Law School students. In each academic semester, there is one prize for the best post and one prize for the best comment.

All Osgoode students are invited to submit entries to the IPilogue, which will be considered automatically for the prizes. All blog entries, whether submitted as a course requirement or outside the rubric of a course, will be considered, except for those submitted by IPilogue Editors.

The submission deadline for consideration for the prizes is the last day of classes for the academic year (e.g., for the 2012-2013 academic year, it is Friday, April 12, 2013). Please submit your blog post to iposgoode@osgoode.yorku.ca and comment on an existing IPilogue post by the last day of classes.

The winning blog posts will be featured on the IP Osgoode website. Recipients will also receive a $500 award, will be announced at Convocation and will receive a permanent notation on their official Osgoode transcript.

Winners of the Gowlings IPilogue Prize

Winter 2012

Best Comment: Alexander Ly: (Bill C-11: Through the Lens of Social Norms)

Best Post: Joshua Dallman: (The SOCAN Experience: A Semester in Osgoode’s IP Intensive Program)

Fall 2011

Best Comment: Elias Lyberogiannis (Parsley, Parsnip, Peas, & Peppers: Patent Policy Perspectives From the Vegetable field)

Best Post: Philip Goldbach: (Steve Jobs: A Legacy In Patents)

Winter 2011

Best Post (tie): Adam Heckman (Australia’s Federal Court rules ISPs must help prevent Copyright Infringement)

Best Post (tie): Clara Klein (Cloud-Based Content and TPMs: the Cloud’s Part in the Next Incarnation of Copyright Reform)

Best Comment: Rita Gao (Response to “Trade-Off: Privacy and Facebook Application”)

Fall 2010

Best Post: Tiffany Wong (Senatorial Pursuit: A Canadian Perspective on the U.S. Reid-Angle Copyright Litigations)

Winter 2010

Best Post: Darren Hall ( The Doctrine of “Inherent Anticipation” in Canada: A Time for Review? )

Best Comment: Ankur Bhatt (Response to “Some Consideration of Patents and Traditional Knowledge Implications: The 2009 UN Report on the Status of Indigenous Peoples”)

Fall 2009

Best Post: Ren Bucholz ( Gospel, Gold Diggers, and Gum Trees: How Sampling Litigation Changes the Tune )

Best Comment: Daniel Kennedy (Response to “Feminism and Intellectual Property Law”)

Winter 2009

Best Post: Jamie Goodman ( The Overprotection of Olympic Marks in Canada )

Best Comment: Kate Lacey (Response to “The Necessary Link Between Open Source Software and a Substantive Intellectual Property Regime”)

Fall 2008

Best Posts:

Barry Stork ( Liberal Party of Canada and Green Shift Inc.: Principles Take a Back Seat to the Almighty Dollar )

Jonathan Giraldi ( CIRA’s WHOIS Policy Strikes a Balance )

Winter 2008

Best Post: Tamsin Thomas (Perspectives from a former scientist-in-training: If I knew then, what I know now…)

Best Comment: Conrad Seaman (Response to “The beginning of the end of net neutrality?”)

Fall 2007

Best Post: Bobby Solhi (Canada to Criminalize Identity Theft)

Best Comment: Rivka Birkan (Response to “Second Life “land” dispute moves offline to federal”)