Like a Moth to the Flame: Attract Corporations and IP Will Come

Recent Privacy Regulations Concerning Automated Decision-Making Systems: Implications on AI Commercialization

When Doors Close, A Market Grows: Museums, COVID-19, and Cultural Digitisation

Summarizing the 2021 Innovation Economy Council Roundtable

3 IP Innovation Clinic Fellows to Receive Mitacs Business Strategy Internships

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Summer 2021 IP Innovation Clinic Fellows

Build-Up, Scale Up: Fostering Innovation in Canada

Recently, IP Osgoode founder and director Prof. Giuseppina D’Agostino sat down with TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin to discuss “Fostering Innovation in Canada”. For the discussion, which aired October 25, Prof. D’Agostino was joined by Prof. Dan Breznitz (Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab and the Munk Chair of Innovation Studies at the University […]

Connecting Canadians, Empowering Inclusive Innovation

Innovation is, once again, a topic of great concern for Canadian policy makers and the commentariat. And for good reason. Yet, at a time when (mainly foreign) companies – notably Alphabet (Google), Apple, Tesla, Amazon, and Facebook – are lauded as being the ‘world’s most innovative’ (for example, see FastCompany and the Boston Consulting Group) […]

More Money, More Problems: The Science, the Law, and the Fight over CRISPR Patents

From Lab Bench to Court Bench: The Science, the Law, and the CRISPR Patent Dispute Whenever a new technology has the potential to be ground-breaking and extremely valuable, there are bound to be disputes about invention and ownership. From Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison to the new space race, scientists and inventors are often driven […]

UGC Exception: For the Love of Amateur and the Profit of Everyone Else

Creating YouTube videos incorporating copyright protected works is a commonplace, often amateur pursuit of today's tech-savvy cultural 'consumers' and no one is making money off of it, right?... Wrong!