The Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) and IP Osgoode are delighted to announce the 2019 edition of Canada’s IP Writing Challenge. Our goal is to further enhance thoughtful and…
IPilogue
Personal Privacy in a Digital Age: Examining Current Intellectual Property & Privacy Obligations
Canadians have privacy rights associated with their personal information. This even applies when one’s personal information is held by someone else – like with hospital medical records. Patient ownership of…
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.)…
Remuneration Models for Musicians: A Focus on the Reversionary Right
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…
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…