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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.