To read the original post on 91亚色鈥檚 yFile, click聽here. The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) raises complex ethical and legal concerns that will be examined in 鈥淏racing for Impact: The Artificial Intelligence Challenge,鈥 a one-day international conference on Friday, Feb. 2, organized by IP Osgoode, Osgoode Hall Law School of 91亚色鈥檚 intellectual […]
The potential applications of artificial intelligence (AI) have been delighting and frightening the popular imagination for generations. From benevolent androids and talking cars to unwavering cyborgs and omnipotent neural networks, AI has captured a place in the collective consciousness. Now, with increased computer power and sophistication as well as over two decades of storing and […]
According to Daith铆 Mac S铆thigh, Professor of Law and Innovation at Queen's University Belfast, making distinctions between media technologies matters a lot for regulation and law. During a talk at Osgoode Hall Law School on November 6, Prof. Mac S铆thigh elaborated on this idea, arguing for the importance of medium-specific approaches to media law and […]
Recently, IP Osgoode founder and director Prof. Giuseppina D鈥橝gostino sat down with TVO鈥檚 The Agenda with Steve Paikin to discuss 鈥淔ostering Innovation in Canada鈥. For the discussion, which aired October 25, Prof. D鈥橝gostino was joined by Prof. Dan Breznitz (Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab and the Munk Chair of Innovation Studies at the University […]
On occasion, regulatory approval announcements in healthcare rise above the din and make headlines. Few have done so with the impact of Pear Therapeutics鈥 reSET, a treatment for substance addiction, which is so significant because it is neither a drug nor a therapeutic medical device, in the traditional sense: it鈥檚 an app that runs on […]
This article is聽cross-posted聽with permission from the author. To read the original post from Canadian Lawyer, click here. Law students from the IP Osgoode Innovation Clinic, in collaboration with lawyers from Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP鈥檚 IP group, will offer聽pro bono one-to-one intellectual property advice at an upcoming Ask the Expert program. The program takes place […]
IP Osgoode, the IP Osgoode Innovation Clinic, and Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP are pleased to announce their participation in the 2017 Accessibility Innovation Showcase鈥檚 Ask the Expert Program September 25 to 26 at The Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, 123 Queen Street West (at Bay Street), Toronto, ON. Members of the IP Osgoode Innovation Clinic […]
The last day of June 2017 saw the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) quash the controversial Promise Doctrine. The issue at hand in AstraZeneca Canada Inc v Apotex Inc was whether the Promise Doctrine should be held as the correct standard of utility under the Patent Act. The SCC鈥檚 ruling finds the Promise Doctrine unsound […]
Innovation is, once again, a topic of great concern for Canadian policy makers and the commentariat. And for good reason. Yet, at a time when (mainly foreign) companies 鈥 notably Alphabet (Google), Apple, Tesla, Amazon, and Facebook 鈥 are lauded as being the 鈥榳orld鈥檚 most innovative鈥 (for example, see FastCompany and the Boston Consulting Group) […]
TORONTO 鈥 The Government of Canada is focussed on making high quality and affordable telecommunications services available to Canadians from coast-to-coast-to-coast. Speaking at the Canadian Telecom Summit[1], Navdeep Bains, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, stated that the Government of Canada intends to address the digital divide in Canada. According to Minister Bains, […]