I’ve enjoyed the TedTalk we watched in class where Johanna Blakley discussed how the lack of copyright has allowed innovation and the establishments of trends in the fashion industry. Please see my final paper attached below where I discuss the topic further.   The lack of copyright has fueled huge economic gains in the fashion […]

Indigenous Trademarks in Sports Until recently, the use of Indigenous-related trademarks in sports was a controversial issue. While it is well-settled today that, at least morally, professional sports teams should not be using Indigenous trademarks for their name (i.e., the Washington Redskins) or mascot (i.e., Chief Wahoo for the Cleveland Indians), it is less clear […]

  Hi everyone, I am LL.M. (Common Law) student. Recently, during our Patent Law classes my curiosity arose to know on what grounds Canadian Patent Law is different from our neighbouring state’s law i.e. from the United States. Hence, I decided to write this comparative analysis. In a nutshell I concluded that US patent law […]

  Hello everyone! I am a LLM CL candidate from India. who is taking this course at JD LEVEL. I have attempted to analyse the interaction between Copyright Law and AI.In August of 2021, India’s copyright office for the first time ever recognised the RAGHAV Painting App, (an artificial intelligence tool) as co-author of artwork. […]

Video & slides below…   Jon

Hi all, With the Major League Baseball season officially commencing today, I thought it was fitting to share an interesting story about the Philadelphia Phillies mascot, the Phillie Phanatic! While I’ve attached the link to the full Bloomberg Law story (and the short copyright settlement approval) below, here is a short summary of the story […]

Amazon.com Inc. recently announced it was joining forces with Meto-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) studios in an acquisition for $8.5 billion to bolster its intellectual property portfolio and original content for its online streaming service, Prime Video.   The streaming wars have continued to rage on and this is only the latest move by some of the TV-streaming […]

Hi everyone! I may be the only one intrigued by this and who didn’t know but I thought it would be good to share with the rest of you that our own Canadian flag is protected under the Trademarks Act. I came across this finding on the Government’s website as it was posted by CIPO. https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cipointernet-internetopic.nsf/eng/wr05045.html […]

(Professor Festinger please mark this post for my 20%) Introduction In class a few weeks back we compared the two penguin designs that were the subjects of the case, Promafil Canada Ltée v. Munsingwear Inc. This case got me thinking of two logos that have caused me some confusion personally. Polo Ralph Lauren (PRL) and […]

Hi everyone, as we were studying about patents and due to the current climate, I feel it is only relevant to talk about the situation occurring between Russia, Ukraine and wider global involvement. I came across this article by Mark Mathison (Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP) which spoke about the western sanctions imposed on Russia due to […]

This paper is written as a piece for participation in the Intellectual Property (“IP”) Course, April 2022. It gives a summary of patent law in the UK. Following our first lecture on patents in Canada, I decided it might be a good idea to briefly discuss the requirement for granting patents in the UK and […]

Hi everyone! I’m Prince and I’m an exchange student over from Scotland, UK. I have attached my short piece on the role of copyright law in the Canadian music industry. I chose this particular topic as I am a musician myself and wanted to enlighten myself to the Canadian Industry. We didn’t cover too much […]

Video & slides below… Jon

Introduction In the time leading up to legalization of marijuana in Canada, a “green rush” swept the Toronto Stock Exchange. Money poured into companies starting up to service both the Canadian and U.S. markets. It has only been about 5 years post legalization and already there are clear signs of the impending psychedelic surge. Studies […]

By now, I am sure most of us have either heard of or played the daily brainteaser Wordle. The online 5-letter word game developed by Josh Wardle, a Brooklyn-based software engineer, is released daily. Players have six attempts to guess the word of the day. Simple enough. But, with any new internet craze, comes those […]