I am pleased to join you from south of the border. My work has been focussed in the United States. Intellectual property laws are very powerful and important today.…
Month: January 2012
Soccer Match Schedules Must Be Creative To Be Copyrighted, Says Advocate General
On December 15, 2011, Advocate General Paolo Mengozzi gave his opinion to the Court of Appeal of England & Wales on whether soccer match schedules could be protected by copyright. …
China’s Patent vs. Innovation Dilemma
With a well-deserved reputation for counterfeiting and knockoffs, we have rarely looked to China for innovation and invention. Nevertheless, as an ever-growing giant on the world’s economic stage, China has…
This Suit Is Bananas
Representatives of the defunct rock band, The Velvet Underground, have brought an action against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc. concerning rights over the world’s most iconic…
Collective Licensing: Promises and Pitfalls
Looking at the current state of trans-border licensing of music inEurope, the European example can teach mainly what to avoid. Even more so, many of the issues discussed in…
The Stanford Experience: A Semester in the IP Intensive Program at Osgoode
Last semester, I had the privilege of being a part of the inaugural class of the Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program at Osgoode Hall Law School. The program…