Biden Administration Supports Intellectual Property Waiver For COVID-19 Vaccines

The Government Of Canada’s 2021 Budget Proposes Building An Innovation Economy Of The Future

Ontario Court Of Appeal Finds Insurance Coverage Does Not Apply To Cyber Hack

Facebook Addresses Resurgence Of Information From 2019 Data Breach

Reforming Canada’s Privacy Legislation: Does it Take a Pandemic?

My Intellectual Property Law Internship at AstraZeneca Canada

Unusual CN Tower Trademark Dispute May Help Business Owners Plan for the Future

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 personal data was illustrated in the 1992 Supreme Court of Canada (‘SCC’) decision, McInerney v. MacDonald, where the Court verified that despite the physician having […]

IP Year in Review 2018 – A Milestone Year for IP Osgoode and Ground-breaking Changes in the Canadian IP landscape

As we settle into 2019, we look forward to topping the successes of the last year! Ten years ago IP Osgoode, Osgoode’s flagship Intellectual Property Law and Technology Program, was launched with the dream of creating a vibrant community to engage in balanced and objective research, and offer new and unexplored viewpoints to public policy […]

Advances in Securing the Bridge to Innovation: Recent Progress on Combating Patent Trolls

Over the last decade, patent trolls have become a prominent intellectual property (IP) issue. Patent trolls are companies that exploit IP as tools for litigation instead of innovation, using purchased patents to threaten other companies to enter into a licensing deal or face a patent infringement lawsuit.  Companies targeted by patent trolls can face huge […]