Slides & video below. Unfortunately my human error is to blame for the lack of sound for the first while.                     Jon

Hi everyone,  This week I’ve been thinking about the intersections between IP protections and activism as well as how infringements to such IP can cause real harm to marginalized communities.  I remembered a chat I had with an associate at a large Vancouver firm who was discussing taking on a pro-bono case to represent the […]

Hi everyone! I wanted to share an interesting article on whether someone’s face could be a trademark. Specifically, I was intrigued by the issue of whether there is trademark for figurative signs representing how historical figures might have looked like. When I watch TV shows or movies situated in an era far back in time, […]

Slides & video below… Jon

Hey everyone! I’m really looking forward to how this class will help me crack the confusing code that is the music industry.  9 months ago, I remember seeing an article about how Ed Sheeran “pre-emptively suing Sami Chokri and Ross O’Donoghue in 2018” asking the court to declare that he (with his song Shape of […]

Hey everyone!   I just came across this article which reminded of something interesting that I saw while walking to the bus stop the other day. If you’ve passed between Vine St. and Yew St. on 4th Ave lately, you’ve probably seen a bunch of trees lined up in an elaborate marketing campaign for the […]

Slides & video below… Jon

Hey Everyone! This is something interesting that has unfolded over the past week or so, and is consequential for anyone interested in D&D or Tabletop in general. An article by CNBC explains how Wizards of the Coast (the owners of the D&D franchise) have walked back their plans to update the OGL (Open Game License): […]

Slides & video below… Jon

Welcome to a new semester of IP Law at Allard. Very much looking forward to learning with all of you. Because there is seemingly so much going on in the IP world every-day, it is pretty safe to predict that there will be a few interesting events that intercede during our semester together. What will  […]

You were an amazing group to share the classroom with. A truly resilient group that overcame the vicissitudes of a semester which had far too few Mondays 😉 You were a group that on the whole wrote terrific exams that showed how engaged you were with the materials. Perhaps, most of all, you were so […]

Hi everyone! I came across an interesting article the other day about the use of AI-generated art for promotional purposes. The article (https://sfstandard.com/arts-culture/people-are-not-happy-that-the-sf-ballet-used-ai-generated-art-to-promote-the-nutcracker/) describes how the promotional material for The Nutcracker caused an uproar among the public solely due to the fact that the illustration used was an AI-generated art. I was aware that many […]

https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/apple-secures-patent-win-alivecor-heart-monitoring-tech-case I saw this article recently and found it very interesting. Apple recently won a decision against AliveCor in a long-running dispute regarding wearable heart monitoring technology. It seems AliveCor attempted to sue Apple for violating their patent regarding an ECG add-on they had developed for the Apple Watch – the ECG functionality was soon […]