In the past, Monsanto has been successful in defending the company’s patents concerning the genes and modified cells present in genetically modified (GM) plants in both the United States and…
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Can Capitalism and Collaboration Co-exist? Tech Sector Cross-licensing and the Emergence of ‘Cooperative Competition’
In this year’s State of the Union address, US President Barack Obama reaffirmed his Administration’s commitment to addressing economic inequality by fostering the jobs of the future: “We know that…
IP Intensive Program: A Semester at TVO
I recently completed an IP Intensive Placement with TVOntario (TVO) and the experience could not have been any better. (more…)
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Going the Way of the Doha? The TPP and Contested Intellectual Property and International Trade Linkages
It has been nearly twenty years since the Uruguay Round of World Trade Organization (WTO) trade talks that created the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement. In…
Plain Packaging for Tobacco Products in the EU Up in Smoke?
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire… or at least a heated debate. On October 8th, 2013, the European Parliament voted on the proposed revisions to the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD). One…
17 Year-Old Patent Causing Problems for Podcasters
Is a podcast analogous to a cassette tape recording of a magazine article? Jim Logan of Personal Audio thinks that it is, and that it thereby infringes his patent. (more…)