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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 and an Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. IP Osgoode would like to wish each of you a very Happy Holiday!  We appreciate your interest and support over the past year and would like to thank all of you for the many kind comments […]

Improving the Trademark Registration Process through the Use of Private Actors

Improving the Trademark Registration Process through the Use of Private Actors

Irina D. Manta is an Assistant Professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. It is a common misconception in the United States that while applications for patent registration suffer delays, problems with the much simpler process of trademark registration are few and far between. As a result, scholars and practitioners have started […]

Putting your eggs in one basket

Putting your eggs in one basket

Brian Chau is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Kobe Bryant, Tiger Woods, Martha Stewart - all mighty brand names, with all too-famous stumbles. Personal branding is a powerful tool - our minds subconsciously create the association, and without knowing, we suddenly consider Accenture as a lean, mean consulting machine. However, what happens when the […]

Location can eat away at the rights of an existing trade-mark

Location can eat away at the rights of an existing trade-mark

Virgil Cojocaru is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The South African Supreme Court of Appeal ruled on Century City Apartments Property Services CC and the Registrar of Companies and Close Corporations v Century City Property Owners Association. A helpful article on the case can be found at the Adams & Adams website. […]

Privacy is too much work

Privacy is too much work

Billy Barnes is a JD candidate at the University of Toronto. If information falls on the tenth page of Google results and nobody reads past page three, does it make a sound? Orin Kerr recently posted a suggestion for increasing your privacy online: change your name to one that already gets lots of results. Odds […]

Tuning In To The Consumer Of Digital Music

Tuning In To The Consumer Of Digital Music

Pascale Chapdelaine is a Ph.D. Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University and an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. As the spheres of interest of consumers and copyright holders get closer in the Digital Age, there is a pressing need to get to know (and eventually confront the needs […]

Are seeds really computer chips?

Are seeds really computer chips?

Denis Borges Barbosa is a Lawyer in Rio de Janeiro, and Intellectual Property Law Professor at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Marcus Lessa (Institute of Economics, UFRJ, Brazil) is a Partner at Denis Borges Barbosa Advogados Law Firm, Rio de Janeiro. The comparison may – or may not – seem strange, but may […]

Bilski and Software Patents

Bilski and Software Patents

Alex Gloor is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The debate over the patentability of computer software has been well-documented, and there seems to be no end in sight. Supporters of software patents defend the right by using many of the historical rationales for patents, such as disclosure of the invention, stimulation of […]