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Artmob Spring 2010 Update

Artmob Spring 2010 Update

David Meurer is a PhD candidate in the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture at York and Ryerson Universities and Senior Research Assistant, Artmob. Artmob is a research project driven by several principles: that Canadians should have greater online access to publicly funded cultural collections; that Canadian cultural institutions have a responsibility to make […]

Living Separate and Apart is Never Easy: Obviousness and Inventiveness in Pharmaceutical Litigation

Living Separate and Apart is Never Easy: Obviousness and Inventiveness in Pharmaceutical Litigation

Ron A. Bouchard is an Associate Professor in the Faculties of Medicine & Dentistry and Law, University of Alberta.  The Canadian Patent Act defines an invention as any “new and useful art, process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement in any art, process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter.” […]

Purposive Claim Construction: Settled Law with Unsettled Application

Purposive Claim Construction: Settled Law with Unsettled Application

Essien Udokang is a J.D. Candidate 2010 at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Patent Law class. Since the decision of the Supreme Court in Free World (2000 SCC 66, [2000] 2 S.C.R. 1024) it is supposedly settled law that courts are to construe the claims of a patent in a purposive manner in determining infringement and invalidity. […]

Intellectual Property Issues for Outer Space Activities

Intellectual Property Issues for Outer Space Activities

Leigh-Ann Tonon is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is taking the Patent Law course. In this blog, I wish to explore the relevance of intellectual property rights to outer space activities. Despite the inventiveness and innovation needed and used for space technology, it is only in recent years that intellectual property […]