Lenz v. Universal Music: US Federal Court defines narrow recoverable damages for bogus takedown notices

Nathan Fan is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In yet another Prince related copyright infringement suit, the Ninth Circuit in the U.S. has taken the opportunity to address the scope of the damage recovery provision in the DMCA for bogus takedown notices. In the recently released order granting partial summary judgement, federal […]

Apple v. HTC: The Tragedy of the Anticommons

Amanda Letourneau is a J.D. candidate at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Patent Law course. News of Apple’s patent infringement lawsuit broke earlier this month and did not come as much of a surprise, given the relative frequency of IP lawsuits being launched in the mobile phone industry. A fellow classmate blogged about the […]

Patent Trolls and Defensive Patent Aggregation: Two sides of the same coin?

Fiona Li is a J.D. candidate at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Patent Law course. A non-practicing entity (NPE) is a patent owner that does not manufacture or use the patented invention. NPEs are commonly referred to as patent trolls. More specifically, patent trolls buy patents cheaply from entities not actively seeking to enforce […]

Inventorship in the 21st Century

Keldeagh Lindsay is a J.D. candidate at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Patent Law course. “In our system of patent law, the identity of the inventor is, for the most part, overshadowed by the issue of invention.” (Apotex v. Wellcome [2001] 1 F.C. 495, at para. 27) The Patent Act does not define “inventorship”, […]

Advocate General Mengozzi releases opinion on Monsanto v. Cefetra

George Nathanael is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Last week, Advocate General Paolo Mengozzi of the European Court of Justice released his opinion on the questions referred by a Dutch court concerning the case of Monsanto Technology LLC v. Cefetra BV and Others. The case involves Monsanto’s attempt to prevent imports of […]