Positions Available: Innovation Clinic Fellows (2-3 positions).

Students will mostly assist clients with patent or trademark law matters. Their remaining time will be spent working on other IP and start-up business related needs as they arise. Tasks may include:

• Patent prior art searches;
• Trade-mark searches;
• Other tasks as assigned and supervised by the supervising lawyer.

Term: Summer 2021 with the possibility of extension for the school year of 2021/2022.

Commitment: This is a part-time, OPIR qualifying, volunteer position. Fellows are expected to provide approximately 2-3 hours a week with opportunity expand.

Training: While a general understanding of intellectual property law is helpful, interest is more critical.

Qualifications:

• Fellows must be Osgoode Hall Law School students.
• An interest in IP law, technology and commercialization law.
• Responsiveness and a commitment to client service.
• Attention to detail and ability to write clearly and concisely.
• Excellent time-management, organizational, and interpersonal skills.

Application Process:

Deadline: Monday, March 22, 2021 at 8 am

Please provide the following materials via email (subject: Application: IP Innovation Clinic Fellow) to iposgoode@osgoode.yorku.ca:

• One page cover letter. Please outline your interests in IP law in addition to other areas of interest. For reference, see current fellow bios.
• A copy of your résumé.
• Unofficial grades, if available

Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Since 2007, IP Osgoode awards prizes every year to students of Osgoode Hall Law School for their contributions to our website. These prizes are generously sponsored by the law firm of . We are happy to announce that IP Osgoode will once again be issuing the series of four prizes, the Gowlings IPilogue Prize, at the end of the school year.

For each semester (Fall and Winter), the author of the best blog is awarded a $500 cash prize, given a notation on their official Osgoode Transcript, and has an official prize announcement during convocation. There are also awards for the best blog comment made on the IP Osgoode website in each semester. Commenting on blogs is a great way to keep up to date on relevant IP and Tech issues and join in the discussion with the rest of the IP Osgoode community.

Anyone wishing to be considered for the Gowlings IPilogue Prize must submit their blog or comment, and be published on the IP Osgoode website, by the last day of classes (Friday April 11, 2014). Applicants must also be full-time Osgoode Hall Law School students. Blogs must be approximately 750 words and of publishable quality (i.e. no spelling/grammatical errors). It is recommended that blogs cite sources in the form of embedded hyperlinks, where appropriate.

Blogs can be submitted to iposgoode@osgoode.yorku.ca. Comments can be made directly on the website. All topics related to IP or Technology law are welcome. For more information on the Gowlings Prize, as well as a list of past winners, please visit . Please note that blogs by IPilogue Editors will not be considered for this Prize.

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, the Bergerons’ gift will create 100 fellowships over the next ten years to support 91��ɫ students in STEM majors who show great promise and leadership potential. In addition to one of a kind experience, graduates of the Bergeron Science and Technology program will earn a Bergeron Distinction in Entrepreneurship and New Ventures and the top two scholars will be awarded the Bergeron Entrepreneur Medal. Both the distinction and medal will be recognized at graduation.

Douglas Bergeron is currently the CEO and largest shareholder of , and was born in Windsor, Ontario. He obtained his undergraduate degree at 91��ɫ in 1983, with a major in computer science. His wife, Sandra Bergeron, is a venture partner with , a director of and , chairman of , and a highly regarded female technology leader in Silicon Valley.

IP Osgoode applauds this investment in the next generation of entrepreneurial engineers and looks forward to supporting 91��ɫ's students on the intellectual property and technology front.

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This international conference will bring together leading scholars, policy-makers, lawyers, physicians and other health care professionals to explore how law can address global health challenges and make real change. The conference includes a keynote panel debate entitled: “Can Law Meet Global Health Challenges?  Perspectives from Medicine and Politics” with Abdallah S. Daar, Senior Scientist, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto; Theodore Marmor, Health Care Policy, Politics and Law Expert, Yale University; Michael Ignatieff, Former Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada & Senior Fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto; and James Orbinski, Chair of Global Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto and former President of the International Council of Médecins Sans Frontières.

The conference will also feature a Keynote Public Lecture: “Creaky Policies in Nanotime: How will Health Care Systems Cope with Global Age” with James Morone from Brown University. Other panel presentations focus on the role of law in the context of access to medicines and the control of chronic diseases, pharmaceutical policy, medical tourism, health and human rights, and health and vulnerability. Panel speakers include: Mary Anne Bobinski, William Bogart, Oscar Cabrera, Timothy Caulfield, I. Glenn Cohen, Rebecca Cook, Jocelyn Downie, Colleen Flood, Richard Gold, Lawrence Gostin, Aeyal Gross, Trudo Lemmens, Ruth Lopert, Constance Macintosh, Erin Nelson, Mariana Motta Prado, and Sheila Wildeman.

For Ontario lawyers, this program can be applied towards the 9 Substantive Hours of annual Continuing Professional Development (CPD) required by the Law Society of Upper Canada. The program may also be applicable towards up to 15 CPD hours for other jurisdictions within Canada and the U.S. Practitioners from these jurisdictions should confirm the applicability with their local law societies.

Trudo Lemmens is Associate Professor at the Faculties of Law and Medicine of the University of Toronto, and a member of the Joint Centre for Bioethics and the Centre for Ethics.

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