Copyright & Social Media
Communications Law
Miles Schaffrick
The Wicked World of Intellectual Property: Defying the Gravity of Copyright and Trademark Law
Introduction For my project, I chose to hold space for the new Wicked movie (if you get it, you get it), and investigate how intellectual property protections manifest in the creative decisions made in the filming of the movie. There is a tension in intellectual property law between creative adaption and the protection of existing […]
Settlement of Patent Case With Potential to Limit Reach of Ozempic
I find the use of intellectual properties to limit access to pharmaceutical drugs extremely interesting, particularly in face of international agreements such as the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). Recently, pharmaceutical companies Mylan Pharmaceuticals and Novo Nordisk settled a patent dispute over Ozempic, the popular weight loss drug […]