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November 29, 2017
Legal Lessons: What You Should Know When Starting an AI or Machine Learning-Enabled Business
LES Toronto Chapter event, visit LES event website for details. December 7-8, 2017
IP Summit
Pan-European IP summit in Brussels, visit the event website for details. February 1-2, 2018
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Bracing for Impact – The Artificial Intelligence Challenge: A Roadmap for AI Governance in Canada
A full day conference by IP Osgoode featuring international leading scholars, industry experts and government officials. In downtown Toronoto at Osgoode Hall (LSUC). More details to come.
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| 2018 Ladas Memorial Award Competition
DEADLINE: January 19, 2018
INTA’s Ladas Memorial Award is an annual international competition that is open to both students and professionals. INTA will award the authors of the top two papers in the student category and the top paper in the professional category. These papers will be considered for possible publication in The Trademark Reporter (TMR), INTA’s legal journal; publication will be subject to the TMR Committee’s editorial review and approval.
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WIPO releases the latest edition of the World Intellectual Property Report (WIPR). The theme of this year’s WIPR is Intangible Capital in Global Value Chains. The Report will feature original estimates of returns attributable to intangible capital in the production of manufactured goods around the globe, as well as explore the role of intangible capital in the supply chains of three specific products: coffee, photo-voltaics and smartphones.
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| The IPIGRAM (23 November 2017)
Feature Posts
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Unveiling the IP Osgoode David Vaver Medal of Excellence in Intellectual Property Law
IP Osgoode is pleased to mark the year Prof. David Vaver received the Order of Canada for his leadership in intellectual property as a “a scholar and mentor” with something just as timeless to share with Osgoode Hall Law students, our future leaders in intellectual property law.
On Nov 20, following a day-long symposium honouring Prof Vaver and before a packed crowd consisting of Prof. Vaver’s former and current students, colleagues, friends and generally all those who admire Prof. Vaver and his scholarship, we unveiled the IP Osgoode David Vaver Medal of Excellence in Intellectual Property Law. The medal will be awarded yearly to an Osgoode student in the graduating class who merits special recognition for outstanding achievements in the area of intellectual property law. The student’s achievements extend beyond academic excellence, and can include significant contributions to research in intellectual property and related areas or exceptional commitment and enthusiasm through their participation in intellectual property-related extra-curricular activities.
Read more Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder & Director of IP Osgoode, the IP Intensive Program, and the Innovation Clinic, the Editor-in-Chief for the IPilogue and the Intellectual Property Journal, and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School.
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IP Osgoode and Osgoode Hall Law School host intellectual property symposium in honour of Osgoode Prof. David Vaver, “Intellectual Property: Fuel for the Fire of Genius or Shelf Life of a Banana?”
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Build-Up, Scale Up: Fostering Innovation in Canada Recently, IP Osgoode founder and director Prof. Giuseppina D’Agostino sat down with TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin to discuss “Fostering Innovation in Canada”. For the discussion, which aired October 25, Prof. D’Agostino was joined by Prof. Dan Breznitz (Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab and the Munk Chair of Innovation Studies at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs) and Dan Ciuriak (Senior Fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation and Director and Principal, Ciuriak Consulting Inc.). The panel had a wide-ranging conversation about the challenges and opportunities Canada faces as the federal government advances its Innovation and Skills Plan and the country’s first National Intellectual Property (IP) Strategy. The video of the discussion is available here.
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In 2017, Canada won the dispute against the US-based pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly in investor-state arbitration (ISA). Foreign investors can sue sovereign governments in ISA in case of mistreatment, such as, for example, expropriation, a violation of fair and equitable treatment and discrimination. To succeed in its claim, the investor should show that the state violated the provisions of an international investment agreement (IIA) such as, for example, the North-American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Ksenia Polonskaya is an IPiloge Editor and a Ph.D. Candidate at Queen’s University
Announcing the Winner of Canada’s IP Writing Challenge 2017
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