Copyright & Social Media
Communications Law
Week 13 Spring 2024 – Slides & Video
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Official Marks and Copyright: Freeing Anne of Green Gables
For my final project, I decided to take a look at the official trademark regime of Anne of Green Gables and ended up becoming very angry about it. Enjoy! If you grew up as a child in Canada in the last century, it was hard to avoid Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables series […]
Chili(e) crunch: inherently distinctive or merely descriptive?
David Chang’s food empire Momofuku has been in the news this week for sending cease and desist letters to other food brands, some of which are small businesses, who have used the term “chile crunch” or “chili crunch” on their products. The letters state that Momofuku is the “owner of all trademark rights” to both […]
Intellectual Property in the Fitness Industry
Hi everyone, Asia and I decided to do our project on intellectual property in the fitness industry. We have made a video discussing this topic and at the end of the video we have some questions for a class discussion! Thank you! Asia Clarke and Kierra Leonard https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iix452XQxem5uTUkXe9hzjYYAKRAzVux/view?usp=sharing IP Project Slides
Week 12 Spring 2024 – Slides & Video
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Prescription drug patents and generic drugs in Canada
Prescription drug patents are a contentious issue in Canada and many other countries. On one hand, strong intellectual property protections for drug creators helps incentivize development of novel remedies and ensures that companies are adequately compensated for the costs and risk they assume in the research and development process. The lucrative revenue earned by drug […]