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July 12-14, 2017
ISHTIP 9th Annual Workshop
International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property event. Visit the event website for details.
July 12, 2017
IP, Brexit, and the UPC: What You Need to Know
An AIPLA webinar. Click here for details.
October 11-13, 2017
91st IPIC Annual Meeting Niagara Falls, Ontario. Visit the meeting website for details.
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| Our warmest congratulations to the Honourable Marshall Rothstein, CC, QC, who was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada. CIPO is seeking feedback as part of their public consultations on the proposed regulatory amendments to the Industrial Design Regulations, the Trade-marks Regulations and the Patent Rules. Click here for details. Call for Applications
IPilogue Editors
IP Osgooode is seeking law students from across Canada and around the world to be part of the IPilogue editorial team. Click here for details.
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| The Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand (IPONZ) along with the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce (SIC) of the Republic of Colombia have both joined the Global Patent Prosecution Highway(GPPH) pilot program. The pilot program, which includes Canada and 23 other nations as participants, seeks to streamline and harmonize Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) guidelines so that participants can obtain corresponding patents faster, more efficiently, and with improved quality.
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| The IPIGRAM (12 July 2017)
Feature Posts
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Connecting Canadians, Empowering Inclusive InnovationInnovation is, once again, a topic of great concern for Canadian policy makers and the commentariat. And for good reason. Yet, at a time when (mainly foreign) companies – notably Alphabet (Google), Apple, Tesla, Amazon, and Facebook – are lauded as being the ‘world’s most innovative’ (for example, see FastCompany and the Boston Consulting Group) and are transforming our everyday lives and the economy, it’s easy to forget that the Government of Canada’s plans for a national Innovation Agenda reach back to the days of the Dot-com Bubble— predating the staggering growth of the Google search engine, the launch of Apple’s iPhone, Elon Musk’s (of Tesla fame) sale of PayPal, Amazon’s first profitable quarter, and Mark Zuckerberg’s 18thbirthday.
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#ISHTIP - Intellectual Property as Circulation and Control The International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) will be holding its annual workshop in Toronto, July 12th-14th, 2017. Organized by the Centre for Innovation law and Policy at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, and co-sponsored in part by Osgoode Hall Law School and IP Osgoode, the workshop will explore all aspects of the circulation/control dilemma from historical and contemporary perspectives. Modalities of control to be considered include: licensing practices; distribution and business models; collectivization; cultural appropriation; authors, inventors and ownership; criminal provisions; international trade agreements; technological means of control such as technological protection measures, anti-circumvention laws, search engines and aggregators; surveillance and policing by law enforcement agencies, ISPs, trolls; and organized resistance to corporate control by users and pirate movements. The workshop agenda boasts an impressive line-up of pre-eminent and interdisciplinary IP scholars from around the globe including IP Osgoode’s own Prof. Carys Craig and Prof. Saptarishi Bandopadhyay, Osgoode’s newest faculty appointee. For more information about the event, click here.
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Money Talk(s) and Competition Conflict: The CTS17 Regulatory Blockbuster Earlier this month, I attended the 2017 Canadian Telecom Summit and covered the Regulatory Blockbuster panel. The Regulatory Blockbuster is an annual event where regulatory representatives from telecom companies (this year, TELUS, Rogers, Bell, and TekSavvy) and other representative stakeholders (this year featured the Public Interest Advocacy Centre) debate regulation, pricing, and future challenges to the telecommunications industry. The 2017 talk was foreshadowed by the comments of the Hon. Navdeep Bains, Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development, who spoke at the beginning of the Summit and issued a clarion call to cut wireless and broadband rates and pushed for affordable pricing for Canadians.
Prasang Shukla is an IPilogue Editor and an International Business Law LL.M. candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School.
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What's Innovative About Cryptocurrency and Hayek's "Free Market Money"? - Some Understated Obstacles in the Race for Blockchain Patents If we are going to be fair, the cryptocurrency idea dates back to almost forty years ago. In an article published in the Wall Street Journal on August 19, 1977, Friedrich Hayek — the economist and philosopher whose work on a theory of money earned him a Nobel Prize — anticipated that many different types of money would eventually co-exist. Hayek foreshadowed a “Free Market Money”, where private forms of currency would outcompete the public form, as private industry incrementally increased its participative role in issuing money.
Bruna D. Kalinoski is a contributing editor for the IPilogue and an LLM candidate in the Osgoode Professional Development Program at York University.
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