January 20, 2016
IP Osgoode Speaks Series featuring Jerry Agar

“I Don’t Care About You” – a perspective on effectively leveraging broadcast media for your cause. Click for details. 

February 3-5, 2016
Orphan Works Licensing Portal Hackathon

Click for details.  By invitation only, to participate, click here.

February 18-20, 2016
“East Meets West” 
University of Washington School hosts Fourth Asia Pacific IP Forum in conjunction with 13th Annual WIPIP Colloquium. Click for details.

February 19-20, 2016
7th Annual Fox IP Moot
Click for details.

February 26-27, 2016
International Patent Drafting Competition
University of Detroit Mercy School of Law and Windsor Law event.  Click for competition rules.

March 2, 2016
IP Osgoode Speaks Series featuring Prof. Abraham Drassinower

On his new book “What’s Wrong with Copying?”, with comments by Prof. Carys Craig.  12:30 – 2:30 at Osgoode Hall Law School.  To register click here (use event code: drassinower)

March 9, 2016
Effective IP Strategy to Drive Innovation

Save the date!  More details to come.

March 17-19, 2016
The 14th Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot 
Taking place at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. Click for details.

SCC rules on the role of technological neutrality in copyright law in Canadian Broadcasting Corp. v. SODRAC 2003 Inc. Congratulations IP Osgoode’s own Prof. David Vaver – SCC cites "Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patents, Trade-marks, 2nd. ed. Toronto: Irwin Law, 2011"

Intellectual Property Journal
Call for Submissions Submissions are welcomed to be considered for inclusion in the Intellectual Property Journal (IPJ). Click for details.
The Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council P. R. China has released proposed amendments to the Chinese patent law for public comment, along with an explanation prepared by SIPO.  Comments are due January 1, 2016.
 
The IPIGRAM (21 December 2015)
 
Feature Posts

Happy Holidays from IP Osgoode!

December 21, 2015 by IP Osgoode


IP Osgoode wishes you a Happy Holiday and Innovative New Year!  We appreciate your interest and support over the past year and look forward to another successful year.  We will slow down over the holiday period and, after a short break, return in January 2016. We look forward to your participation in all of our upcoming IP Osgoode activities!
 
The Future of the IGF: Mandate Renewal?
December 21, 2015 Luca Belli

The re-posting of this comment is part of a cross-posting collaboration with MediaLaws: Law and Policy of the Media in a Comparative Perspective.

This week, internet governance debates will centre on the UN General Assembly, which is due to make a decision about the future of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF); specifically, whether or not to renew its mandate. In advance of that decision, Luca Belli, Researcher at the Center for Technology and Society (CTS) of Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School, Rio de Janeiro, outlines the value of the IGF and why he believes that its mandate should be renewed. This is the second blog to be published by the Media Policy Project which considers the issue of the IGF’s mandate.
 

The Not-So-Obvious Aspects of an Obviousness-Type Double Patenting Analysis
December 18, 2015 by Corey McClary

The granting of a patent has often been described as a bargain [1] between the government and the patentee. In exchange for the exclusive right [2] to make, construct, use and sell their invention, the inventor will disclose the details of their discovery and, upon the patent’s expiry, the invention will be made available to members of the public to use as they wish. For this reason, there is a prohibition [3] against obtaining multiple patents for the same invention, otherwise known as double patenting.

Recent Posts
From Government Surveillance to Federal Data Breaches: Privacy Commissioner Tables Annual Report
December 21, 2015 by Nolan Hurlburt

The re-posting of this article is part of a cross-posting agreement with CyberLex.

On December 10, 2015, the Annual Report of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (“OPC”) on the Privacy Act for 2014-2015 was tabled in Parliament.  The Annual Report provides details on privacy trends and investigations involving Canadian federal departments for the past year.


Republishing Mein Kampf: An Act of Respect to the Public Domain
December 18, 2015 by Aicha Tohry

New Year’s Day is synonymous with new beginnings, and 2016 will be no exception. Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”), the manifesto in which Adolf Hitler explains his vision for Germany’s future and his political ideologies, will be falling into the public domain on January 1st, 2016. A French publishing house named Fayard, along with a few German editors, have made the controversial decision to publish a version of the Nazi leader’s book annotated with commentary by historians and various intellectuals. Copyright protected works become part of the public domain regularly, as terms of protection are limited. This particular book, however, has stirred controversy. In an open letter to Fayard, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, former French Minister of Vocational Education, stated his opposition to the publisher’s project. In the letter, Mélenchon argues that providing a public domain version is insufficient justification to publish the manifesto. But, in reality, I believe that reediting Mein Kampf is as important in this day and age to the public domain as ever.


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