Events

This event is by personal invitation only. A workshop where preliminary results from the McGill Center for Intellectual Property and Policy and the McGill Stikeman Chair in Tax Law’s project will be revealed, drawing on their findings  in Montreal as well as in Silicon Valley and Silicon Wadi.     Read more

Guy Pessach is a Law Professor at the Faculty of Law, Hebrew University Jerusalem. His main areas of research are Copyright Law, Comparative and International Aspects of the Creative Industries and Law & Technology. Guy was a Fulbright Scholar, Residential Fellow at the Information Society Project, Yale Law School; a Visiting Professor at Columbia Law […] Read more

The next CIPP/Lallemand Seminar will feature Irene Calboli on Non-Traditional Trademarks Unplugged: Or Should Trademark Law Protect Aesthetic Product Features? The event is open to all and CLE accreditation has been requested. There is a $40 charge for lawyers seeking CLE accreditation.   Abstract In the past decades, the scope of trademark protection has exponentially expanded. Today, a […] Read more

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is one of a series of major new trade agreements (CETA between Canada and the EU, and the TTIP between the USA and the EU) which Canada may join or which may have an important impact on Canada. Two of the most controversial chapters of the TPP cover Intellectual Property Rights and […] Read more

The MASS former executive member and a doctoral candidate at McGill University Lukas Vanhonnaeker will be giving a presentation on Intellectual Property Rights as Foreign Direct Investment on January 20, 2016 at 4pm in Room 316. Le séminaire est organisé par le Centre des politiques en propriété intellectuelle, la Société étudiante d’arbitrage de McGill et […] Read more

A CIPP/Lallemand seminar with Me Julie Gauvreau (Goudreau Gage Dubuc). Comment les plantes peuvent-elles être protégées au Canada? La Loi sur les obtentions végétales canadienne vient d’être modernisée, 25 ans après son adoption. Il s’agissait entre autres de l’harmoniser avec la convention internationale (UPOV, 1991) et ainsi les lois correspondantes d’autres pays, promouvoir l’innovation en […] Read more

Seminar: Inflation Legislative et droit d’auteur Dans le cadre du Cycle de conférences 2015 sur les fonctions contemporaines du droit « Normes énormes », le Regroupement Droit, changements et gouvernance a le plaisir d’accueillir la professeure Mistrale Goudreau (Université d’Ottawa – section de droit civil) pour une conference intitulée « Inflation législative et droit d’auteur ». Mistrale Goudreau est […] Read more

Price: $40 charge for lawyers seeking CLE accreditation CIPP/Lallemand seminar with Professor Jean-Frédéric Morin (Université Laval), Canada Research Chair in International Political Economy. Open to all, $40 charge for lawyers seeking CLE accreditation (CLE credit requested for 1.5 hours). Read more

Price:  $30 Join us for the second talk of Faculty of Law’s popular continuing legal education series.  The information society has turned into a supranational knowledge society and digital economy. No discipline can claim a monopoly on regulating its unbridled development. Can law still play its fundamental role of protection of individuals? • Me Éloïse Gratton (Borden […] Read more

Price: $40 for lawyers seeking CLE hours The Centre for Intellectual Property Policy of McGill University is organizing an IP Masterclass with Prof. Valérie-Laure Benabou, Prof. Mélanie Clément-Fontaine, and Prof. Célia Zolynski, who are visiting from Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France. Program (in French only) Les intervenantes replaceront la compétence de l’Union, vis-à-vis des États membres et vis-à-vis des instruments […] Read more