I had the opportunity to speak with Owen Byrd, the Chief Evangelist and General Counsel for the Legal Analytics company Lex Machina. Based in Menlo Park, California, Lex Machina is…
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IP Intensive: Experiencing the Heart of the Legal Technology Boom at CodeX
This fall semester I had the honour of attending CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics as part of Osgoode’s Intellectual Property Law and Technology Intensive Program. CodeX’s broad mission is…
SEPs and the Swinging Pendulum
American IP scholar Mark Lemley aptly characterized the dynamic relationship between IP and competition law as a swinging pendulum, in which antitrust enforcement of IP has cycled from under-protection to…
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,…
Nice Classification of Trade-marks – Perhaps Not So Nice for Canadians
As discussed in Allison McLean’s “Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes coming to the Trade-marks Act” June 5, 2014 post, significant changes to the Canadian Trade-marks Act were introduced in Bill C-31, the 2014 budget…