On May 4th, the Ontario Bar Association presented “Intellectual Property Issues in a Non-IP Context”. This conference brought together professionals from several practice areas, such as criminal law, insurance law…
Month: May 2009
Taser Sues Second Life Creators Over Trademark Infringement
On April 17th, Taser International Inc. filed a 102-page complaint in the U.S. District Court (District of Arizona) against Linden Research Inc., creators of the wildly popular online video game…
United States Doctrine of Inequitable Conduct Under Scrutiny Again
The controversial doctrine of inequitable conduct has once again garnered much attention in the patent law community due to the recent denial of certiorari by the US Supreme Court in Aventis Pharma v.…
The End of the Tail
Chris Castle is Managing Partner of Christian L. Castle Attorneys, Los Angeles and San Francisco. You’ve probably heard the expression “the long tail” used by Web 2.0 cognoscenti. Despite the…
United States Patent Reform – Give Up and Do It Right?
Lee Hollaar is a professor of computer science at the University of Utah, where he teaches engineering and intellectual property law as well as networking and operating systems. On June…
Generic Wine Names Statutorily Narrowed in Canada
Ashlee Froese is an Osgoode Hall alumnus and currently practices intellectual property at the law firm of Keyser Mason Ball LLP. What are Geographical Indications in Canada? Geographical Indications (“GIs”)…