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December 7 – 11, 2015
WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights: 31st Session
Geneva, Switzerland. Click for details. December 10-11, 2015
INTA’s 2015 Geographical Names Conference
Rome, Italty. Click for details. 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.
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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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Europe creates EU-wide rules on cybersecurity. Transport and energy companies will have to ensure that the digital infrastructure that they use to deliver essential services, such as traffic control or electricity grid management, is robust enough to withstand cyber-attacks, under new rules provisionally agreed by internal market MEPs and the Luxembourg Presidency of the EU Council of Ministers on Monday December 7, 2015. Online marketplaces like eBay or Amazon, search engines and clouds will also be required to ensure that their infrastructure is secure.
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| The IPIGRAM (9 December 2015)
Feature Posts
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Branding Linguistics: What Coca-Cola and Chinese Bakeries have in Common
The emergence of Chinese brands has become a global phenomenon. Not only are there exports to and local marketing within the Chinese diaspora and later generations, but Western businesses are also merging with and acquiring Chinese businesses and Western trademarks are engaging in brand extension or cross-branding with Chinese mark owners. In doing so, unexpected language issues are being encountered that create market confusion, cause inefficiencies, and increase costs.
This article proposes as a solution to this conflict among Chinese language marks a model that more realistically assesses the linguistic knowledge of the presumed trademark consumer. Using Canada as a test case, it also develops a method for filing and searching such marks that may suggest similar methods for avoiding conflicts involving foreign language marks in general.
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| Conference Report: “Internet and Copyright Law in the European Perspective. The Digital Single Market Copyright”
December 8, 2015 Gianluca Campus
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.
On November 4th and 5th 2015 the Italian Judge Permanent Training Program for the Court of Milan (Hon. Francesca Fiecconi), with the collaboration of AIPPI Italian Group (Ms Renata Righetti, Avv.ti Giorgio Mondini, Simona Lavagnini, Fabrizio Sanna) and Franzosi Law Firm (with a team composed by Prof. Avv. Mario Franzosi, Avv.ti Gianluca Campus and Anna Maria Stein), organized in the Aula Magna of the Court of Milan a Congress for practitioners and academics from all over Europe aimed at discussing the most recent evolutions in the copyright law, taking into consideration the reform proposals indicated by the Europen Commission in the Digital Single Market Strategy for Europe.
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What Should Be Included in a Canadian Orphan Drug Regulatory Framework
December 4, 2015 by Ryan De Vries
As the new Liberal government turns its mind to the application of substantive policies, it will have to decide what to do with the Canadian orphan drug regulatory framework (ODRF) that has been in development. This framework, based in large part on the example of the United States Orphan Drug Act (US ODA), which has been both praised and criticized, has been in the works since October 2012 and is considered by some to be long overdue. Today’s policymakers would be wise to consider the possibility that the goals of a Canadian ODRF may be different from that of the US ODA – perhaps not all elements of the US ODA should be included in a Canadian ODRF.
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| Recent PostsAttacking the Attack Ads: Broadcasters Strike Back
December 3, 2015 by Jennifer R. Davidson
Political attack ads are a Canadian electoral staple, compressing incriminating, damning and provoking footage into 30-second media bites. Typically, the subject matter is harvested from archived footage of the target captured under the media’s ever-watchful lens. Political parties have freely taken to exploiting news materials without the consent of originating news agencies. Broadcasters strongly condemn this practice, insisting that the materials are protected under the Copyright Act (RSC 1985, c C-42); political parties disagree, suggesting that their use falls within fair dealing carve-outs to the Act.
Don’t Shoot The Messenger – Authors Guild v. Google, Inc.
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