Are Trade-marks Recession Proof?

Ashlee Froese is an Osgoode Hall alumnus and currently practices intellectual property at the law firm of Keyser Mason Ball LLP. In today's tough economic times, downsizing and cutting costs has become the global universal mantra.  But is this strategy necessarily applicable to intellectual property?  Given that trade-mark rights can exist in perpetuity, their value […]

Are Patents on Interfaces Impeding Interoperability?

Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman ‘74 Distinguished Professor of Law and Information at the University of California at Berkeley and is a member of IP Osgoode's International Advisory Council. Many commentators and policymakers have expressed serious concerns about the exclusionary potency of patents on communications protocols and interface designs for information and communications […]