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.)…
Category: Innovation
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…
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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,…
The (Un)Controllable Rise of Smart Clothing
In the second instalment of the Toronto Wearables Series, I discussed how wearable technology, such as smart watches or smart headbands, has become somewhat common. Indeed, it has enabled users…
York’s Partnership with IBM is About Doing Higher Education Differently
In an economy like Canada’s, where two-thirds of new jobs require post-secondary education and 40-70 per cent of existing jobs will be disrupted by artificial intelligence and automation, universities have…