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IP in 3D: How IP Owners Should Respond to 3D Printers
Although intellectual property (IP) law adequately protects many forms of IP, the coming commercialization of cheap 3D printers may facilitate new means of mass pirating that existing law cannot prevent. Though…
IP Intensive: A Semester at Innovation, Science and Economic Development (formerly known as Industry Canada)
As the title of this blog alludes to, I joined the Copyright and Trademark Directorate (CTPD) at Industry Canada (IC) later transforming into the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic…
IP Intensive: Stranger in a Strange Land - Or, How a Semester at CodeX made me Comfortable With “Think [Like a Lawyer, but] Different”
Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean…
IP Intensive: Ottawa - The Best of Both Worlds
Living and working in Ottawa is a unique, and often dual, experience. Every morning as I head to work at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), I cross the border…
IP Intensive: A Semester at TEVA Canada
This past fall, I had an opportunity to work with the patent strategy group at Teva Canada as part of Osgoode’s Intellectual Property Law Intensive Program. Teva Canada is the…