| January 13, 2016
Osgoode's Clinical Education & Intensive Programs Info Session
Learn more about the IP Intensive, 12:30-2:30 PM, moot court. 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 4, 2016
AIPLA: How do I protect that?
A mock client interview identifying protectable IP in terms of patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. Click for details.
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 25, 2016
UNPACK SODRAC: Tech Neutrality, Reproduction Rights and Mandatory Tariffs after CBC v SODRAC (SCC 2015)
A half day symposium (12:30 – 5:30 PM at Osgoode) organized by Osgoode and UofT on the SCC’s recent ruling in CBC v SODRAC. Click to RSVP (Event Code: SODRAC).
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 Profs. Carys Craig & Bita Amani. Click for details.
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.
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| IP Osgoode Call for Applications
DEADLINE: Feb. 15, 2016
Summer Opportunities:
IPilogue Editor, click for details.
Innovation Clinic Fellows, click for details.
Intellectual Property Journal
Call for Submissions Submissions are welcomed to be considered for inclusion in the Intellectual Property Journal (IPJ). Click for details.
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On January 1st, a great new crop of works entered the public domain in Canada. Since our term of protection (for now) is set at life plus 50 years, on New Year's day copyright expires in works by authors and creators who died in 1965. The 2016 group includes poet T.S. Eliot, composer Nat King Cole, civil rights activist Malcolm X, playwright Lorraine Hansberry, author Shirley Jackson, and architect/artist Le Corbusier.
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| The IPIGRAM (13 January 2016)
Feature Posts
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Osgoode's IP Intensive Program: Apply Today!
We invite all 1L and 2L Osgoode students to join IP Osgoode at Osgoode’s Clinical Education and Intensive Programs General Information Session and Fair today from 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm.
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IP Intensive: 3, 2, 1… And We’re Rolling – A Semester at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
January 11, 2016 by Jennifer R Davidson
Think you have what it takes to provide legal advice to the newsroom with five-minutes left until they go to air? Are you ready to tell the folks at Dragons’ Den what they can and cannot do (and not many people tell them what they cannot do); do you think you are Canada’s Smartest Person? Then this is the internship for you!
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IP Intensive: A Semester at Innovation, Science and Economic Development (formerly known as Industry Canada)
January 12, 2016 by Mahdi M. Hussein
As the title of this blog alludes to, I joined the Copyright and Trademark Directorate (CTPD) at Industry Canada (IC) later transforming into the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (DISED or ISED? the jury is still out on the acronym) at a time of constant flux. I arrived at my internship a mere three weeks before the end of the longest federal election in recent Canadian history. This is of particular interest to policy-makers since the length and nature of this particular election meant a potential shifting of policy goals and mandates. I was incredibly fortunate to be at the precipice of change and be able to witness first-hand the machinery of the civil service in their faithful and earnest attempt to fulfill their mandates.
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| Recent Posts
IP Intensive: Stranger in a Strange Land – Or, How a Semester at CodeX made me Comfortable With “Think [Like a Lawyer, but] Different”
Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science—and it means as little to us (because of our Earthling assumptions) as color means to a blind man. – Robert Heinlein, “Stranger in a Strange Land”, 1961
Let’s start with a fact pattern. Say that you have a background in building software, and believe in innovation. Now, imagine that you see a massive problem with the badly designed or badly implemented and the millions of people who have been dis-empowered by it. What would you do?
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IP Intensive: Ottawa – The Best of Both Worlds
Living and working in Ottawa is a unique, and often dual, experience. Every morning as I head to work at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), I cross the border from Ontario into Quebec. Conversations often begin in English and end in French. Ottawa itself has features of a large city, but the friendly dynamics of a small town. At CIPO, I also felt like I got to experience the best of both worlds: engaging with substantive IP law and thought-provoking policy work.
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IP Intensive: A Semester at TEVA Canada
January 12, 2016 by Ryan De Vries
This past fall, I had an opportunity to work with the patent strategy group at Teva Canada as part of Osgoode’s Intellectual Property Law Intensive Program. Teva Canada is the Canadian branch of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., a company commonly known as one of the largest generic pharmaceutical companies in the world, though it also has a brand division.
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IP Intensive: Supporting Innovation and Entrepreneurship – A Semester at ventureLAB January 12, 2016 by Sabrina Ding
Before I participated in Osgoode’s Intellectual Property Law and Technology Intensive Program, I thought legal pro bono work only pertained to human rights, criminal, and refugee matters. However, after completing my internship with ventureLAB, a non-for-profit organization that helps technology entrepreneurs with their business development, I realized that entrepreneurs and small businesses are also groups with limited capital who can benefit greatly from pro bono work.
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IP Intensive: Reflecting on (C)anadian Heritage – Copyright Conundrums in Our Nation’s Capital
January 11, 2016 by Stephanie Kolla
Prior to my placement at the Department of Canadian Heritage, Copyright and International Trade Policy Branch as part of Osgoode’s Intellectual Property Law and Technology Intensive Program I had a fairly limited understanding of copyright law. I thought I at least knew the basics. And while I am certainly no expert now, my time at Canadian Heritage gave me the opportunity to dig deep into the bowels of the Copyright Act and gain a real understanding of how ubiquitous copyright law really is. Is there really a better place to learn about copyright than in the heart of the government’s copyright policy branch? What I learned during the placement far exceeded anything I could have learned in the classroom.
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IP Intensive: IP issues in journalism – A semester at The Globe and Mail
January 11, 2016 by Brendan Monahan
As an editor of my student newspaper in undergrad, part of me always wanted to be a journalist. Maybe it was just my love of coffee and staying up late.
But if you’d told me a few years ago that I could spend an entire semester of law school in the heart of a buzzing newsroom at one of the country’s most respected media companies, my answer would probably have been, “no way.” Yet that is exactly where I found myself this past September as I began my ten-week placement at The Globe and Mail as part of Osgoode’s Intellectual Property Law and Technology Intensive Program.
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IP Intensive: A trip behind the scenes of one of Canada’s largest entertainment companies, Cineplex
January 11, 2016 by Andrew Hunter
It is four o’clock on November 20th, and I’ve been travelling around the office to say my goodbyes. It doesn’t take long to do the travelling, but the goodbyes take a while. There’s only nine members of the legal department in all at Cineplex, but for a multi-billion dollar corporation, they do the work of ninety.
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IP Intensive: Never Stop Learning – A Semester at TVO
January 11, 2016 by Heather Pringle
Okay, I’ll admit it: I’m a nerd. I’m the kid who skipped school just so I could stay at home and code websites until the wee hours of the morning. I would read books about particle physics or behavioural economics, not silly preteen vampires or wizards. Growing up, my channel of choice was BC’s equivalent to TVO – the Knowledge Network. So when I heard that I would be spending a semester as part of Osgoode’ Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program at the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (commonly known as TVO), I was already picking out a new pocket protector for my first day. I couldn’t possibly have asked for a better placement to satisfy my inner Bill Nye.
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