This year’s World IP Day theme, “Powering Change: Women and Innovation and Creativity,” celebrates the ingenuity and importance of the women who are driving change and creating a better future across the world. To help celebrate this year’s theme, IP Osgoode will be featuring a Q&A series with female entrepreneurs from the Innovation Clinic. In the days leading up to World IP Day on April 26, the Q&A series will not only showcase the entrepreneurs’ innovative ideas and creativity but also their perspectives on navigating the IP commercialization process.

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Maya Medeiros is a partner, intellectual property (IP) lawyer, patent agent (Canada, US), and trademark agent (Canada, US) at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP. She advises on IP strategy and manages international IP portfolios directed to a range of technology including artificial intelligence, blockchain, cybersecurity, cryptography, payments, communications, health devices, virtual and mixed reality. Maya is a key contributor to AItech.law, which focuses on the ethical and legal implications of artificial intelligence. She is an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University and teaches a course on the Commercialization of Intellectual Property. Maya works with the IP Osgoode Innovation Clinic to supervise its clinic students and service emerging companies. She has a degree in mathematics and computer science and gained valuable industry experience working for a technology start-up company.

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Sustainable Development & Revitalization (SDNR) for First Nations Community Engagement was founded at York University and the Schulich School of Business in 2015 after two years of consultation with Professors, Elders, Chiefs, and government bodies. As an Indigenous community engagement organization, SDNR understands the importance of building bridges between academia, stakeholders, Chiefs, Band Councillors, and government bodies. Through these interconnected relationships, the team creates and successfully executes major fundraising initiatives for isolated communities. In addition to partaking in Procurement Opportunities, they also conduct environmental assessments, and engage with renewable energy and economic development projects.

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Lara Hammoud, co-founder of Lawyerly, is a B.Comm. and LL.L graduate of the University of Ottawa. Lara’s career epiphany – to use her knowledge, skills, experience, time and energy on helping others – transpired as she was working as a Financial Operations Analyst at a large American bank. That year marked the beginning of a challenging, yet very exciting journey to master law and all the legal tools to serve her aspiration of making the world a better place. After graduating law school, Lara decided to continue pursuing her dream of improving access to justice by working on her new venture, “Lawyerly”, an online marketplace that connects clients in need with legal professionals to provide unbundled legal services fully online.

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Roya Mahboob is a serial entrepreneur, CEO and President of Digital Citizen Fund, Bright Citizen (Coffee& Tea) and EdyEdy. She is focused on building #Digital Literacy for women and children in developing countries. Her personal goal for #Digital Literacy is to bridge the gap between education and job markets by offering practical online skills in her new company and platform EdyEdy for women and youth in developing countries.

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This week, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg will make a long-awaited appearance on Capitol Hill. With Facebook under new and increased scrutiny in the United States (US) and United Kingdom (UK) following the Cambridge Analytica data breach, Facebook’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer is set to be grilled by representatives of both the Senate and the House. The fallout from the Cambridge Analytica affair has spooked users as well as investors, igniting a #deleteFacebook campaign and sending the company’s stock price off a cliff. Questions from US lawmakers are likely to focus on fundamental issues surrounding how Facebook collects, protects, and commercializes user data on its platform. These matters strike at the heart of Facebook’s advertising revenue model, meaning that Zuckerberg’s congressional moment may potentially become an existential threat to his company’s operations as well as the data-driven operations of his peers in the technology industry.

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Our Oxford Experience

Osgoode Hall Law School was one of a select 28 international teams to receive a coveted invitation to compete in the 16^th Annual Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot at the University of Oxford in England, a remarkable achievement considering that 66 teams applied from around the globe. Invitations were based on the top facta submitted over the fall term. The moot took place over three days from March 15^th – 17^th, 2018. Representing Osgoode were Will Chalmers, Jasmine Godfrey and John Wu. As the premier international IP moot, the event attracted some of the top international IP academics and practitioners to spend a few days in Oxford as judges.

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I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. I mean with artificial intelligence we’re summoning the demon. – Elon Musk

In light of the quote above, the thought of demonic robot trolls may scare people into not reading the rest of this article as “ignorance is bliss”. However, it is not the fantastical, cave-dwelling version of a troll that this article sets out to discuss, but rather it is the familiar, to some “cave-dwelling”, non-practicing entity (NPE) that the patent community has come to know as a patent troll.

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Although the Toronto housing market may be constantly scrutinized by the Canadian media, it is not often that a copyright infringement case becomes a matter for public consumption. However, the Toronto Star published an Article reporting a settlement between homeowners regarding the alleged infringement of an architectural work.[1] Despite settling, the facts highlight two common difficulties present in asserting copyright in the design of a house as a homeowner.

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In the United States, moral rights are protected at the federal level through section 106A of the U.S. Copyright Code.[1] The provision provides for the right of attribution and the right of integrity to authors of certain works only. Specifically, authors of works of visual art, which is defined as a painting, drawing, print or sculpture, or a still photographic image. These are subject to certain conditions of both quantity (must be single copy, or not exceeding 200 copies which are to be signed and consecutively numbered by the author) and purpose, in the case of still photographic image (it must be produced for exhibition purposes only). [2]

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