Ryan Erdman is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In a truly monumental achievement in scientific innovation, there are now over a dozen authorized COVID-19…
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A Year in the Life of Three Oxford Moot Finalists
Osgoode Hall Law School’s Oxford IP moot team has boldly gone where no Ozzie has gone before at the 18th Annual Oxford International Intellectual Property Law Moot, and it was…
Balancing Privacy and Public Health: The Paradoxical Aspect of COVID-19
On November 11, 2020, the collaborative efforts of Osgoode Hall’s Health Law Association, Privacy Law Society, and Constitutional Law Society helped to host the “Balancing Privacy and Public Health During…
Reflections on ‘Balancing Privacy and Public Health during COVID-19’
On November 11, 2020, Osgoode Privacy Law Society (OPLS), in collaboration with Osgoode Health Law Association (OHLA) and Osgoode Constitutional Society (OCLS), held a panel event to discuss the existing…
Bill C-13 (Covid-19 Emergency Response Act) amendments to Patent Act
The typical justification for modern patent systems is that of incentive-based utilitarianism: there exists a level of IP protection that produces an optimal balance of production of intellectual works and…
Live and Let Die: Gene Patenting Plot Thickens as the Patent/Trade Secret Line is Blurred
The long battle in the American courts over Myriad Genetics’ patents of BRCA1 and BRCA2, the primary diagnostic genes for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer has been well-documented in the…