You can't spell "OPIR" without "IP" - My experience with the Trade-marks Opposition Board

Annie Messerkhanian recently completed her second year of the J.D. program at Osgoode Hall Law School. Having just completed my second year of study, I was acutely aware of the fact that I had only one year remaining within which to complete my Osgoode Public Interest Requirement (OPIR). Students at Osgoode Hall Law School, beginning […]

False Innovation and the Pursuit of Sustainability

Chris Castle is Managing Partner of Christian L. Castle Attorneys, Los Angeles and San Francisco. On Thursday, May 21, U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel wrapped up hearings on the preliminary injunction she granted in the fall against Real Networks and its "RealDVD" copying software.  And the Real "Facet" DVD copying and storage device […]

Amazon’s One-Click Patent Application Gets Bilski’d

In a recently released decision by the Canada Patent Appeal Board and Commissioner of Patents, an application by Amazon.com for its one-click ordering system was rejected.  The application contained 75 claims and was a response to the Examiner's report from 2002, where claims 44 to 50 were directed to a physical object and the rest were […]