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A Continuation Of The Super-Injunction Saga: Is There An End In Sight?

A Continuation Of The Super-Injunction Saga: Is There An End In Sight?

Andrew Baker is an LLB/BCL candidate at McGill University Faculty of Law. Recent developments in the UK, including the notorious case of a famous footballer and a report from Lord Neuberger, have once again called into question the use of the super-injunction as a method of protecting privacy prompting responses from MPs, the judiciary, and […]

IP Osgoode In The Spotlight: OCE / IP Osgoode Innovation Clinic Officially Launched And IP Osgoode Advisory Board At The SCC!

IP Osgoode In The Spotlight: OCE / IP Osgoode Innovation Clinic Officially Launched And IP Osgoode Advisory Board At The SCC!

Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. We are pleased to share with you the official announcement of the OCE / IP Osgoode Innovation Clinic. This groundbreaking initiative will see IP Osgoode partnered with the Ontario Centres of Excellence’s (OCE) Centre for Commercialization of […]

Whither Survey Evidence? What The Supreme Court Of Canada Said In Masterpiece

Whither Survey Evidence? What The Supreme Court Of Canada Said In Masterpiece

Ruth M. Corbin, Ph.D., LL.M., is the Managing Partner at CorbinPartners Inc. and an Adjunct Faculty member at Osgoode Hall Law School.[1] The Supreme Court of Canada, in its recent “Masterpiece” decision,[2] sent a strong message to the legal and social science communities with respect to survey evidence.

UK Government Releases Report: "Intellectual Asset Management for Universities"

UK Government Releases Report: "Intellectual Asset Management for Universities"

Jeremy Loeb is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, who is spending part of the summer completing the summer law  program in International law at the Queen's University Bader International Studies Center in Herstmonceux, UK.  He is currently writing from Paris, France. It has been nearly one month since the British took a […]

OIPC Annual Report Calls For A “Proactive” Approach To Privacy Protection

OIPC Annual Report Calls For A “Proactive” Approach To Privacy Protection

Michael Gilburt is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On May 17, 2011, Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) Dr. Ann Cavoukian released her Annual Report on the state of privacy protection in Canada. The Report articulated a clear message to public and private institutions: “be proactive” in protecting personal information and online […]

Pet-Door Patent Dispute Over Jurisdiction Clarified By US Court of Appeals

Pet-Door Patent Dispute Over Jurisdiction Clarified By US Court of Appeals

Kalen Lumsden is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Radio Systems Corp. v. Accession, Inc., No. 10-1390 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 25, 2011) overrules a 2003 decision that sending a cease-and-desist letter to an infringing party in another state was sufficient to grant the addressee’s state jurisdiction over the owner in future patent enforcement.