When one approaches the self-serve fountain drink machine at any given fast-food joint, it is usually safe to expect that the liquid beverage sputtering out of the “Coca-Cola®” nozzle would…
Month: August 2010
Yes, Patents Do Have Gender
Michael John Long is an LLM candidate advancing to the PhD at Osgoode Hall Law School In his recent essay, Do Patents Have Gender? , intellectual property scholar Dan L Burk admits…
Fashion IP Revisited: The Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act
Steven Zuccarelli is a 2012 JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. New York Senator Charles Schumer has recently unveiled the latest U.S attempt to protect innovative and novel fashion…
RIM’s Battle for Information Privacy, Market Share, and its Reputation
Robert Dewald is a J.D. Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School Canadian telecommunications giant Research in Motion (RIM), which manufacturers the popular BlackBerry, has reportedly offered information and tools to…
Transnational Regulation: Rough Consensus and Running Code
While practitioners have long considered the transnational sphere an anarchic Wild West, Rough Consensus and Running Code: A Theory of Transnational Private Law reveals elaborate regulatory foundations comprising both “hard”…
IP Osgoode: Call for Editors (2010-2011)
IPilogue (www.iposgoode.ca) is the first online review of its kind, featuring thoughtful intellectual property and technology law commentary by its student editors as well as scholars and other experts from…