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Use It or Lose It: How to Acquire and Protect your Trademarks

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Madelaine Lynch is a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, enrolled in Professor David Vaver’s 2021-2022 Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program. This means that this name has become the name the public uses broadly to identify the goods or services and no longer identifies the brand.

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Understanding Compulsory Licensing and Access to Essentials

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To Facilitate Governmental Use : The governmental use of a patent is regarded as based on ’eminent domain,’ which means that the government can acquire private property to make public use possible. For more visit: [link].

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The Good Get: Interviews, The Predicates Of Copyright Ownership, & Divorcing Subjects From Owning Copyright Content

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It is strange because that would mean that the unpublished portions would also be government works available for public use. And it doesn’t have to be a paid performance to qualify,” as Dr Hayleigh Bosher, Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at Brunel University London, notes.