This past fall, Canadian music icon Bryan Adams presented in front of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage to propose an amendment to the Canadian reversionary right [1]. Adams recommended…
Month: April 2019
A Possible Legal Response to the Rise of Smart Clothing
In the third instalment of the Toronto Wearables Series, I began to discuss a possible path forward in the regulation of smart clothing. The rise of new ideas and innovations…
From Start-up to Scale-up: A Report on the Innovation Clinic in Canada
Intellectual property (IP) legal clinics play a crucial role in helping Canadian inventors and entrepreneurs bring their inventions to market while strengthening the foundations of the country’s innovation ecosystem. IP…
Combination of patent law, copyright can protect AI innovation, panel suggests
This article was originally posted on thelawyersdaily.ca How courts deal with the concept of authorship is an area to watch as artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more creative and humanlike, noted…
ICYMI: Highlights from Part 2 of IP Osgoode's Bracing for Impact AI Conference Series
On March 21, 2019, we had the pleasure of attending IP Ogsoode’s Bracing for Impact conference series held at the Toronto Reference Library. This year’s conference theme was data governance,…
Keatley Surveying Ltd v Teranet Inc: The SCC’s Crown Copyright Case
This article was originally posted on theCourt.ca Today (March 29) the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) will hear the intellectual property case of Keatley Surveying Ltd v Teranet Inc, 37863 [Keatley] about the…