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UK Court Finds Use Of Ring Surveillance Equipment Infringes Privacy Rights Associated With The General Data Protection Regulation

‘Fear of God’ and their Fear of Counterfeit: Taking Legal Action Against Fake E-commerce Sites

EU Penalizes Amazon $887 million for GDPR Infringement

CIPO Examination Practice Respecting Purposive Construction: A Marked Deviation From Whirlpool and Free World Trust

On November 24, 2011, the Federal Court of Appeal released its decision for Amazon.com, Inc. v. The Commissioner of Patents, 2011 FCA 328.  This case related to patent application 2,246,933 filed by Amazon.com, Inc. entitled “Method and System For Placing A Purchase Order Via A Communications Network”. Popularly known as the “one-click shopping cart” case, […]

Mining the Digital Gold Rush: The Legal (L)ore around France's Data-Mining Tax

With markets in real property, personal property, and intellectual property quite cornered, the future-savvy lawyer might consider their cutting-edge cousin, if France's data-mining tax proposal has its way: what could be termed existential property*, courtesy of Google, Facebook, Amazon, and the like. Or rather, courtesy of their users, whose digitally collected personal data may be wholesale […]

Business Method Patents: Policy Implications

Bita M. Rajaee is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is enrolled in Professor Ikechi Mgbeoji’s Patents class in Fall 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. One of the most important recent decisions in Canadian patents law is that […]

Warning: Patent Troll Seeks To Stamp Out Amazon's (Kindle) Fire

Sean Jackson is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, and is currently enrolled in Professor Mgbeoji’s Patents class, in Fall 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. An ugly patent troll has reared its head again, this time targeting Amazon.  With […]

'Practical Application' Business Methods Deemed Patentable By The Federal Court

Neda Navabi is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, and is currently enrolled in Professor Ikechi Mgbeoji’s Patents class, in Fall 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. On October 14th, 2010, the Federal Court ruled that Amazon.com should be permitted […]

Amazon’s One-Click Patent Application Gets Bilski’d

In a recently released decision by the Canada Patent Appeal Board and Commissioner of Patents, an application by Amazon.com for its one-click ordering system was rejected.  The application contained 75 claims and was a response to the Examiner's report from 2002, where claims 44 to 50 were directed to a physical object and the rest were […]