IP Osgoode would like to thank everyone who attended Professor Jane Ginsburg’s lecture, titled “The U.S. Supreme Court’s Aereo decision and the U.S.’ international obligation to implement the ‘making available right’: Are…
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IP Osgoode Speaks Series Video: Copyright Exceptions as Users' Rights? An Empirical Critique
IP Osgoode would like to thank everyone who attended Dr. Emily Hudson’s lecture, titled “Copyright Exceptions as Users’ Rights? An Empirical Critique,” on September 29, 2014 at Osgoode Hall Law School.…
Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices, Third Edition
On 19 August 2014, Register of Copyrights Maria A. Pallante released a draft of the Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices, Third Edition. This publication is a 1,200 page document…
Promises That Can Kill: An Update
Under the Patent Act, an invention must be useful to be patentable. While in Canada the inventor does not need to describe the utility of the invention in the patent,…
U.S. Implementation of the “making available” right: Are we there yet?
The “making available” right, as articulated in the WIPO Copyright Treaty art. 8 (and the WPPT arts. 10 and 14), applies to the offering to the public of on-demand access…
African Patent Offices Not Fit for Purpose
Patents are public documents, issued to inventors by individual states, certifying that the named inventor has been granted a limited monopoly to exclude other persons from working, selling or using…