Breaking News Feed: Facebook's Questionable Patent

Jamie Goodman is a J.D. candidate at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Patent Law course. Facebook, a website whose primary platform is based around the notion of sharing, recently received an exclusive patent on its focal “News Feed” layout, which could very well hinder many other social networking sites from sharing information in a […]

The Overprotection of Olympic Marks in Canada

Jamie Goodman is a first year law student at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Legal Values: Challenges in Intellectual Property course. The public domain in trademarks is composed of images, words, and phrases that cannot reasonably be granted exclusive protection because they are either generically descriptive, or because they are part of some shared […]