| April 6-8, 2015
31st Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference
American Bar Association – Section of Intellectual Property Law event. Click for details.
April 7, 2016
Transfer Pricing & Tax Aspects of IP Offshoring
A Toronto Chapter of the Licensing Executives Society event. Click for details.
April 14, 2016
Intellectual Property, Competition, and the Rule of Law
A Toronto Intellectual Property Group event featuring Dr. Ariel Katz. Click for details.
April 14 &15, 2016
Software IP – IP Protections for Computer Programs: Past, Present and Future
20th Annual Berkeley Centre for Law & Technology and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal Symposium. Click for details.
May 16, 2016
CPD and Annual IPIC Update
CPD session with members of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys followed by IPIC annual update. Click for details.
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| Gowling WLG Best Blog in IP Law & Technology Prize
DEADLINE: April 8, 2016
Award for best blog and comment by an Osgoode students. Click for details. July 1, 2016
Canada’s IP Writing Challenge 2016
The Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) and IP Osgoode invite submissions from law students, graduate students, and professionals. Click for details.
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| The IPIGRAM (5 April 2016)
Feature Posts
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The Undue Reliance on Physical Objects in the Regulation of Information Products
March 31, 2016 by Pascale Chapdelaine
Featured here is a summary of Pascale Chapdelaine’s article recently published in the Journal of Technology Law & Policy, that is now available at SSRN.
The presence of a physical object (a book , DVD, a CD) plays a determinant role in how information products (e.g., commercial copies of computer programs, books, musical recordings, video games, and virtual worlds) are regulated, in contrast with copies of similar information products disembodied from a physical object. The presence of a physical object influences how law makers distinguish goods from services, to define a contract of sale or license, to apply the first sale doctrine in copyright law, and to determine which acts reserved to copyright holders are involved in a commercial transaction. In this article, I argue that the emphasis on a physical object is to a large extent arbitrary, leads to double standards, legal and normative incoherence, and ultimately that it is detrimental to recipients of information products and copyright user rights.
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For More ‘Fun and Games’, visit the 14th Annual Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot!
March 31, 2016 by Jennifer R Davidson and Jacquilynne Schlesier
Ambush marketing is the practice of sidestepping the intellectual property rights of well-known brands, often through an intentionally vague and clever implication, to benefit from a public perception of an association or connection to the brand, without paying make that association legitimately. This practice is particularly problematic at sporting mega-events, like the Olympic Games. Canada grappled with several ambush marketing issues during the Vancouver Olympic Games (2010); remember Lululemon’s “Cool Sporting Event That Takes Place in British Columbia Between 2009 & 2011 Edition” clothing line?
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| | | Osgoode Wins Best Factum, Takes 2nd Place at the 2016 Fox IP Moot April 4, 2016 by Jordan Fine, Keton Motta-Freeman, Ran He, Alicja Puchta and Asad Akhtar
A preeminent Canadian artist named Ann Phibian. Her shaded-in line drawing of a leaping frog titled “50 Shades of Green” and the public domain painting it was based on titled “One Giant Leap”. A graphic designer named Baron Greenback. The problem for the 2016 annual Harold G. Fox Moot was packed with as many amphibious puns as there were copyright law issues. The Fox Moot rotates its problem each year through the three major areas of intellectual property law—copyrights, trademarks and patents—and landed this year on two major themes in copyright law: copyright infringement and moral rights.
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| RECENT POSTS Batmobile Declared a Character Deserving of Copyright Protection, Finally Invincible March 31, 2016 by Margaret Haig
This blog is cross-posted with permission from Margaret Haig, Head of Copyright Delivery at the UK IPO, her original post is available here.
In February, I got invited to take part in a hackathon. I took a second look at the invitation, and ‘hackathon’ jumped out! But we wouldn’t be hacking our way into the government or big business. Instead, we would try to solve a problem with a digital solution.
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