You have some innovative research you want to commercialize and you are unsure how to protect your smart idea. Where do you go to get help?聽 This burning question has been answered by a new initiative between The Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) and IP Osgoode.
A new Regional Innovation Centre has been launched to help up-and-coming 91亚色 Region companies reach the next level of growth.聽 Called ventureLAB, the centre 鈥 which provides services at no-charge to qualified small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) 鈥 is the go-to point for entrepreneurs looking to build world-class businesses.
Samantha Schreiber is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law聽(the 鈥淚nstitute鈥) has published comments on two draft instruments (1) the Draft Commission Block Exemption Regulation on Research and Development Agreements (the 鈥淒raft R&D Regulation鈥) and (2) the Draft Guidelines on Horizontal Cooperation Agreements […]
Professor Sean O'Connor is a Research Affiliate to IP Osgoode, Director of the Law, Technology & Arts Group, Faculty Director of the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic, and Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle. Traditionally, debates over the ownership and use of government funded inventions revolve around the interests of: […]
Vincent Dor茅 is a JD/MBA Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and Schulich School of Business. Over 2000 people convened in Stratford, Ontario this week for Canada 3.0: Canada鈥檚 Premier Digital Media Forum. 聽This 2-day conference was created in an effort to bring together the best minds from the digital media space to collaboratively develop […]
Stuart Freen聽is a J.D. candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is taking the Patent Law course. Non-practicing entities (NPEs) are rarely depicted in a positive light. Particularly in the IT sector, NPEs or 鈥減atent trolls鈥 as they are often called are characterized as opportunistic extortionists, amassing large and strategic patent portfolios without actually conducting […]
Brandon Evenson is a 2010 JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On February 11, 2010, IP Osgoode and the Hennick Center for Business and Law hosted their second conference on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Commercialization. Similar to last year鈥檚 conference the speaking panel and audience were composed of various stakeholders from government, industry and […]
Virgil Cojocaru is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. These days governments are funding private sector enterprises. The public purse is increasingly used to aid businesses. However, many questions remain about the effectiveness of such a strategy. Josh Lerner, in his book, Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and […]
Blake Moran is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. When you tell someone that you have an undergraduate degree in science, a masters degree in business, and have started studying law, they usually say something like 鈥渟eems to me like you REALLY can鈥檛 make up your mind!鈥澛 But this summer, I finally got […]
Nirav Bhatt is an LLM Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. From 2-6 November 2009, the meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group for the ongoing negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol to enhance international climate change cooperation took place in Barcelona, Spain. The Barcelona talks […]