Patent protection is a crucial consideration for inventors with new innovations. It ensures that innovation persists in the marketplace, and also guarantees some form of monopoly and profit for inventors…
Category: Innovation
Is Privacy a Dead Letter?
In Osgoode Hall Law School’s course Legal Values: Artificial Intelligence, professor Maura Grossman engages the class with weekly reflections on the legal and ethical issues with new advancements in technology.…
Top Innovative Projects for Mental Illness Awareness Week
This week, Canada celebrates Mental Illness Awareness Week (MIAW) from October 6 to October 12. MIAW was designed to increase Canadians’ knowledge and understanding of mental illness. It was created…
AI for Lawyers Conference Highlights: Exciting and challenging AI technology developments in litigation, immigration, and transactional law
The Law Commission of Ontario, in collaboration with Element AI and Osgoode Hall Law School recently hosted an AI for Lawyers conference. The conference featured a panel of legal practitioners…
Researchers win $1.89M grant to search for AI solution to infant pain assessment
On April 2, a team of York University researchers led by psychology Professor Rebecca Pillai Riddell, associate vice-president research and the director of the Opportunities to Understand Childhood Hurt (O.U.C.H.)…
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…