Tamsin Thomas is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is taking the Patent Law class. At the beginning of March 2010, Greenpeace Germany and others unsuccessfully challenged a patent on a method of increasing milk supply in cattle. Cattle can be made to produce larger amounts of milk when they are genetically […]
Tamsin Thomas is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is taking the Intellectual Property Theory course. In his article, “Some Realism about Indigenism”, Professor Michael Davis argues that TRIPs “is the biggest disaster faced by the Third World since the end of the territorial-based colonial era.” In the context of protecting traditional knowledge, he […]
In its Strategic Plan published in 2006, Ontario’s Ministry of Research and Innovation called for the generation of an “innovation culture” in Ontario with one goal of increasing the commercialization of research taking place at universities. I could not help but think of my own experience as a grad student in a cell biology research […]
In late 2007, Virgin Enterprises successfully opposed the registration of “VIRGIN CANDLES” in Israel. The applicant sought to register the TM in association with candles. The Israel Patent and Trademark Office accepted that because Virgin is a famous TM and had a large range of products and widespread international distribution, a likelihood of confusion did […]
An idealistic view is that the purpose of copyright is available to induce creators to share their creations with the public in order to foster the growth of learning and knowledge. In exchange for their creations, copyright law provides creators with the incentive of exclusive rights. Lydia Pallas Loren, however, argues in her article, “The […]