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 […]
Virgil Cojocaru is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In BMS Computer Solutions Limited and AB Agri Limited the meaning and interpretation of a perpetual licence came under debate in an application for summary judgment. The dispute concerns an animal feed maker, AB Agri (Agri), and BMS Computer Solutions (BMS), the software developer. […]
Peter Waldkirch is a second year LL.B. student at the University of Ottawa. Can someone own facts? According to the US “hot news” doctrine, the answer is – sorta. Under certain circumstances, a news gathering organization can receive “quasi-property” rights in facts against allegedly free-riding competitors. As neither property nor copyright, the rarely used hot […]
Tamsin Thomas is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is taking the Patent Law class. At the beginning of March 2010, Greenpeace Germany and others unsuccessfully challenged a patent on a method of increasing milk supply in cattle. Cattle can be made to produce larger amounts of milk when they are genetically […]
Nathan Fan is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On March 23, 2010, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) released its long-awaited decision over Google’s sale of trademark keywords in its AdWords service and the resulting litigious skirmish with various trademark owners in France (this French skirmish was covered in a previous IPilogue […]
Nirav Bhatt is an LLM candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. China’s economic progress is coming in leaps and bounds, be it rapid development of infrastructure or moving at a rate much faster than its counterparts. But the recent Google-China controversy raises concerns about whether this will cause major problems for China in the long run. […]