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A Masterful Treatise - Professor David Vaver’s Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patents, Trade-Marks, 2nd Ed.

A Masterful Treatise - Professor David Vaver’s Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patents, Trade-Marks, 2nd Ed.

Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. David Vaver, Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, has authored a recently released, updated and expanded edition of his textbook entitled, Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patents, Trade-Marks, 2nd ed.

Hargreaves Report Calls For The Modernization Of The UK's IP Regime

Hargreaves Report Calls For The Modernization Of The UK's IP Regime

Michael Gilburt is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On May 18, 2011, a review committee led by Cardiff University Professor Ian Hargreaves released a report that deemed the UK’s intellectual property (IP) regime obsolete in the digital age. Prime Minster David Cameron commissioned the report following claims made by the founders of […]

EU Parliament Calls On Commission To Work Towards WIPO Treaty For Accessibility

EU Parliament Calls On Commission To Work Towards WIPO Treaty For Accessibility

Andrew Baker is an LLB/BCL candidate at McGill University Faculty of Law. The EU Parliament has just released a report (see article 70) calling on the EU Commission to support a WIPO treaty proposal that would create binding legal norms for copyright exceptions for accessible formats of print material.

The Festival Formerly Known As Caribana

The Festival Formerly Known As Caribana

Amelia Manera is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Toronto’s Caribana festival, currently operated by the Festival Management Committee (FMC), has been ordered to give the festival a different name as part of the Ontario Superior Court ruling that the Caribana Arts Group (CAG), the founder and original operator of the festival, owns […]

Netflix Is The Largest Source Of Internet Traffic In North America At 30%

Netflix Is The Largest Source Of Internet Traffic In North America At 30%

Kalen Lumsden is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. According to a report released last week by Sandvine, 29.7% of all downstream internet traffic during peak hours in North America is from the online video streaming service Netflix. Old-fashioned web browsing accounted for only 17% of traffic due to the high bandwidth requirements […]

Rogue Pharmacies Slide Under Google Radar

Rogue Pharmacies Slide Under Google Radar

Nora Sleeth is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Google’s advertising policy contains a set of guidelines intended to prevent illegal online pharmacies from advertising on the search engine. Adverts for these “rogue pharmacies” have nevertheless been spotted, leading Google to set aside $500 million to settle a potential investigation regarding whether Google […]