Ivy Tsui is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Australian Government’s Advisory Council on Intellectual Property (ACIP) has released its report on the review of “Patentable Subject Matter” – detailing the types of inventions that should be patented.
IP Osgoode and the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) are proud to announce Canada’s IP Writing Challenge 2011.
Professor Siebrasse is a Professor of Law at the University of New Brunswick. His patent law blog is Sufficient Description. The turn to policy in legal analysis that began with the Realists has undoubtedly been salutary in its overall effect on the law, but we have yet to fully come to grips with the evidentiary […]
Dan Whalen is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Amid the struggle to bring peace and democracy to the Middle East, there is another lesser-known effort to win the hearts and minds of the region’s citizens online. The U.S. has waged a “war of ideas”, traditionally through unidirectional intervention, but a recent initiative […]
Sarah Falzon is a first year JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and currently enrolled in the course Law & Social Change: Law & Music, in Winter 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. Last.fm announced that it is ending its […]
Aaron Kleinman is a first year JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and currently enrolled in the course Law & Social Change: Law & Music, in Winter 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. Utilizing online services, like Grooveshark, Pandora, Spotify, […]
Ivy Tsui is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. With a backlog of more than one million patent applications at the USPTO, the U.S. Congress has been pushing to reform the patent system since 2005. On February 3rd, 2011, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the Patent Reform Act of 2011 by a […]
Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. A new member to the blogosphere, law.arts.culture, has been launched by Professor Kate Sutherland, a writer and Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School.
Sangeetha Punniyamoorthy and Thomas Kurys are lawyers at Dimock Stratton LLP, and both are Osgoode alumni. The 3rd annual Harold G. Fox Moot took place this past weekend (February 18-19, 2011) at the Federal Court in downtown Toronto. This year’s moot problem dealt with the common law tort of passing off and the issue of […]
Leslie Chong is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Many academics have commented on the potential impacts of the Federal Court's decision in Amazon.com on patent law in Canada. Reshika Dhir and Nassim Nasser, 2011 JD candidates at Osgoode Hall Law School, give their insights on the court’s reasonings in a recent issue of […]