SpicyIP

JANUARY 20, 2024

Basheer raised in his 2018 post on the Politics of Patent Citation. While the question made sense ever since I read the post, it started making more sense (and bothering me more) after working on the SpicyIP Open IP Syllabus where I witnessed a relative “over-accessibility” of US-European IPR scholarship. a question that Prof.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

To ensure you don’t miss out on interesting IP law developments reported on our other IP blogs, we will, on a regular basis, provide you with an overview of the most-read posts from each of our IP law blogs. While the number of new European Patent Applications per year increased by about 10%, i.e

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IIPRD

MARCH 21, 2024

Introduction Competition law and intellectual property rights (IPR) are like two different sides of the same coin, as they both work to ensure vibrancy in the market and promote consumer welfare. In the legal world, competition law and IPR law are often represented by a term, i.e., “friends in disagreement.” [1]

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Patently-O

MAY 19, 2024

As an idea based creation, intellectual property’s nonrivalrous nature has always placed it on airy ground as a statutory creation rather than a natural law. But Stern’s new article bucks the conventional wisdom and instead argues that the nonrivalry of IP is a myth. 1163 (2024). Oil States Energy Servs.,

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IPilogue

MARCH 7, 2023

Serena Nath is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In 2018, the Government of Canada introduced an Intellectual Property (IP) Strategy to aid “Canadian businesses, creators, entrepreneurs and innovators” to “understand, protect and access IP”.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Design patents play a role when we have them, typically a handbag/jewelry/diamond cuts/chain designs/shoes. Seems like a lower bar for entry for design patent than TM protection. Lowry: For many people/products, the first few years are the only years that matter, and design patents are a tool for that.

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IP Tech Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

Every year, on April 26, intellectual property organizations around the world observe “ World IP Day ” – an event established by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to raise awareness of patents, copyrights, designs, and trademarks, and to celebrate the creativity and contributions of inventors, authors, artists and entrepreneurs.

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Intepat

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Intellectual Property (IP) rights jurisprudence over the years has adapted to the changing technological environment. Initially, there was a focus on the actual existence of creations and inventions, as it is a commonly known fact that ideas aren’t protected under IP law.

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SpicyIP

JULY 22, 2023

With a plethora of developments and discussions on AI and AI based innovations, almost everyone has an opinion on how it should develop! In this post, developed along the lines of a literature review cum blogpost, Yashna Walia has looked through the various government policy documents on AI to see what they have to say about IP!

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This is a review of Intellectual Property Strategies for Start-ups: A Practical Guide , edited by Stefan Golkowsky, partner, PFENNING Patent Attorneys and Lawyers, Berlin, Germany. Chapters 1-3 are written by patent attorneys and address the characteristics and strategies of IP rights.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 13, 2024

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) and the United States Copyright Office (“USCO”) delivered a report to Congress entitled Non-Fungible Tokens and Intellectual Property on March 12, 2024 (“Report”).

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Hons) at Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab. He has a keen interest in commercial laws, especially in IP and allied fields. He has 80 patents to his credit, among which his invention of the Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) has been phenomenal in the world of wireless networking systems.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 24, 2022

Intellectual Property Rights – a fascinating ‘subject’ that inadvertently touches upon so many aspects of our day to day life, whether we’re conscious of it or not. A few decades ago, even most lawyers wouldn’t have been able to clearly explain what a patent is.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Gregory Hong is an IPilogue Writer and a 1L JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, Many of you are likely familiar with 3D printing. A mounting concern, however, was that the ability for anyone to download a physical 3D object may pose problems for IP rights. Start the machine and wait! Ballardini et al.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 18, 2023

Mac Mok is an IP Innovation Clinic Senior Fellow and a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Pina D’Agostino’s IP Intensive Program. This semester, I participated in Osgoode’s Intellectual Property (IP) Law and Technology Intensive program (IP Intensive).

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Search codes for images are very useful; many poop marks are applied for, but there is no poop codes; since there’s no search code, you will have higher prosecution and maintenance costs. Gilden: the patent side has categories for, e.g., devices for genital massage. Why the difference between patent & TM sides?

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 25, 2021

A critical issue to be addressed is whether these limited-edition products can get protection under Intellectual Property (IP) law, just as regular products do, and if yes, then which is the most appropriate form of IP Protection ? Protection for Limited Edition Products under Trademark Law. For more visit: [link].

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Injunctions are all the rage in contemporary patent law. This week marks the publication of a book by the IPKat’s Dutch friend and former GuestKat Léon Dijkman on the hotly contested notion of the proportionality test in European patent law, accessible for free here. Oh, how times have changed.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 28, 2022

Christian Bekking is an IP Intensive student and a 3L JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. During the first semester of my 3L year, I was placed at the Department of Canadian Heritage (PCH), Copyright Policy Branch for ten weeks through the IP Law & Technology Intensive Program.

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Intellectual Property Office Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

We spoke to their CEO Tom de Pelet about how Hornit has grown and how intellectual property rights have strengthened his business. Find out how to protect your IP using our guidance pages. Tom registered his IP rights globally, which gave him a strong standing when defending his business against fake sellers.

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Kashishipr

APRIL 13, 2022

With the Metaverse and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) being the common buzzwords as of late, the USPTO (US Patent & Trademark Office) has been experiencing a significant rise in the number of Trademark Applications filed in the virtual sphere to safeguard the products and services. IP Challenges in the Metaverse.

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The IPKat

MARCH 24, 2024

The IPKat has received and is pleased to publish a guest contribution by Katfriend Hans Eriksson (Westerberg & Partners) that discusses the rights conferred by trade mark law in the context of horology. It is not enough for you to simply have the money to buy your long sought grail watch from the likes of F.P.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Andrew Gilden, Talking Pleasure in IP Courts and advocates are skeptical of value of pleasure; when they want to honor it, they reframe it as something else, like social justice. Joy of producing/consuming can be important motivation for activities, though, so exploring how courts deal with it in IP is important. Quite broad.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 31, 2022

The IPKat is pleased to host the following contribution by Katfriend Marianna Ryan (Edwin Coe and King's College London) on the topical issue of how Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) are to be treated and what IP issues come with them. Here's what Marianna writes: Ownership of IP rights by DAOs – the future is nigh?

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Bonnie Hassanzadeh is an IP Intensive student and 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. As part of the IP Innovation Clinic’s involvement in the inaugural year of Mitacs’ Business Strategy Internship program, Bonnie completed an internship at Bereskin & Parr LLP under the direct supervision of Reshika Dhir.

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SpicyIP

JULY 25, 2021

Though the report gives some word space to ‘public interest’ and similar concepts, the overall approach seems to be a very pro-industry one, with academia and civil society stakeholders not even being consulted, even though corporate trade groups’ and law firms’ views were heard (see para 2, introduction).

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder & Director of IP Osgoode and the IP Innovation Clinic, an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, and the Editor-in-Chief of the IPilogue and the Intellectual Property Journal. Our IPilogue is one of Canada’s leading IP Blogs with an enthusiastic international following.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Madelaine Lynch is an IP Intensive student and a 3L JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. This was an amazing opportunity since the IP realities of start-ups are quite different than the IP we learn from a textbook, or even the IP experienced from a law firm perspective.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 1, 2023

It is time to vote for your favourite intellectual property law books of 2023 in the annual IPKat Book of the Year Awards! The IPKat team continues to read and review as many brilliant IP books as possible, of which there are many, for the Kat community. You can check out the previous nominees and winners here.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 31, 2021

One Katnews leads to another, especially if IP-related. Let’s see what happening in the IP blogosphere this week:- Trade Marks Online trade channels have become a substantial aspect of many brand owners’ business. including the ownership of IP thus created.

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SpicyIP

JULY 3, 2022

The IP Reveries series is an experimental ‘fun’ series set in an imaginary classroom where we are using a dialogue format to raise questions and discussions around IP that traditionally don’t find a place to get voiced either due to long standing assumptions, or due to being seen as ‘too trivial’ to discuss in more formal settings.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

As 2023 comes to an end, in line with our annual tradition, we take stock of the top IP developments that occurred this year. We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so it’s a mixed bag of cases dealing with patents, trademarks, copyright law etc. A special thanks to Mr. G. Nataraj, Ms.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 14, 2022

Pina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, the IP Intensive Program, and the IP Innovation Clinic, the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the IPilogue, the Deputy Editor of the Intellectual Property Journal, and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. 2021 was an exciting year for the IPilogue.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 14, 2023

Anyone working in the field of IP law from developing countries particularly on the African continent understands the tension between IPRs and access to IP-protected materials based on human rights imperatives. But all is not lost for while the policy space has been severely reduced, it is not completely eroded.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The book's cover wonderfully matches the colours of the Villa Salviati gardens This is a book review of IP Accidents: Negligence Liability in Intellectual Property , by Patrick Goold , City Law School, University of London. IP Accidents offers another creative inquiry that goes to the heart of IP. What should be done?

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 12, 2023

To do this, food firms invest a lot of money in developing and promoting distinctive brands and are increasingly turning to intellectual property (IP) protection as a means of establishing or maintaining their leadership in the industry. IP provides a wide range of tools that can help businesses stand apart from the competitors.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It addresses many of the risks and problems that can arise with AI. One of the topics which raises many legal issues, particularly with generative AI (“genAI”), is intellectual property. However, it does recognize that IP issues exist and mandates actions by various agencies to address these issues.

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