Jamie Goodman is a first year law student at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Legal Values: Challenges in Intellectual Property course. The public domain in trademarks is composed of…
Month: March 2009
Official Marks: Ulterior Motive?
Reshika Dhir is a first year law student at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Legal Values: Challenges in Intellectual Property course. A Trademark is any logo, word, symbol, name,…
IP Osgoode Panel: Copyright in the Remix Era Part 2 – An Emerging Consensus
Not more than ten years ago, intellectual property was divided by heated rhetoric on both sides. The changing technological landscape had given citizens unprecedented power to copy, manipulate, and distribute…
Mario Bouchard: What’s new at the Copyright Board of Canada?
On March 23, the Toronto Intellectual Property Group and IP Osgoode hosted Mario Bouchard, General Counsel for the Copyright Board of Canada, as a guest speaker at a dinner event…
'Painters Eleven' - A Possible Win Provides Some Security For The Public
Last week the Globe & Mail put out an article on a recent trademark registration that raised the ire of many in the art market. It seems like this issue…
The Necessary Link Between Open Source Software and a Substantive Intellectual Property Regime
Adam Bucci is a first year law student at Osgoode Hall taking the “Legal Values: Challenges in Intellectual Property” course. I would like to address the impact that open source…