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Reanimation: A call for IP Re-interpretation?

Reanimation: A call for IP Re-interpretation?

Parisa Nikfarjam is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is taking the Patent Law course. Digital technology has made it possible to resurrect dead celebrities, by way of digital clones created from photos and footages, and to manipulate their image such that they can be a part of new creative projects. This process, […]

Made in Italy Act

Made in Italy Act

Giovanni Maria Riccio is Professor of Private Comparative Law at the University of Salerno and is also an associate in the Mazzetti Rossi e Associate law firm in Italy. The Industrial Production Committee of the Italian Parliament has finally approved a draft bill which enforces use of a ‘made in Italy’ label on every product […]

Digital future for the entertainment industry: Global Opportunities and Challenges

Digital future for the entertainment industry: Global Opportunities and Challenges

Nirav Bhatt is an LLM candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On Thursday, March 4, IP Osgoode hosted a talk by Frances Seghers, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Government Affairs for Sony Pictures Entertainment.  Her talk was a guest lecture in Barry Sookman’s intellectual property law class. Frances began the lecture by explaining a little bit […]

Amazon's Infamous One-Click Patent Accepted in US Upon Re-Examination

Amazon's Infamous One-Click Patent Accepted in US Upon Re-Examination

Alex Gloor is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. North of the Border we are quite familiar with the patent application brought by online retailer Amazon.com for its one-click ordering system. This application was rejected in Canada as being directed towards unpatentable subject matter. However, in the United States a modified version of […]

Rethinking Privacy: James Grimmelmann's "Privacy as Product Safety"

Rethinking Privacy: James Grimmelmann's "Privacy as Product Safety"

Peter Waldkirch is a second year LL.B. student at the University of Ottawa. The rapid rise of online social networks (can you believe that Facebook only opened itself to the general public in 2006?) has already raised many privacy-related issues. For example, I would suspect that many readers of IPilogue have already heard about stories […]

Efficacy of TRIPS public health amendment raises concern at the WTO

Efficacy of TRIPS public health amendment raises concern at the WTO

Nirav Bhatt is an LLM candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. WTO members on 2 March 2010, debated the question of whether a 2003 decision designed to improve access to medicines is working. Although opinions expressed in the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Council varied, members agreed that they should look at real-life […]

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

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

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?

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

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”, […]