2017
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Terroir in a cup (or of wine, place and quality) – Sponsored by the Lallemand Food Law Project
CIPP, the Lallemand Food Law Project and the McGill Food Law Society invite you to a roundtable discussion about the role of terroir and geographical indications in wine law. Matteo Ferrari is an assistant professor of private law at the University of Trento, Italy, where he teaches the law of food and wine. He has […] Read more
CIPP/Lallemand Seminars Events
CIPP/Lallemand Seminar: Hacktivism
October 12, 2017 Intellectual Property
CIPP/Lallemand Seminar: Hacktivism Lundi 23 octobre, 13h00-14h30, 3644 Peel, local 316 This talk will explore how big data analytics are used to monitor security vulnerability disclosures in the dark market, and how to prevent the zero-day vulnerabilities from becoming escalated acts of persistent advanced cybersecurity threats. Vulnerabilities are lucrative commodities in the dark market as well as […] Read more
CIPP/Lallemand Seminars Events
CIPP/Lallemand Seminar: Patenting Computer Implemented Inventions (CII) – The European Patent Office Experience (co-sponsored by Goudreau Gage Dubuc)
CIPP/Lallemand Seminar: Patenting Computer Implemented Inventions (CII) – The European Patent Office Experience Lecturers : Cristina Lopes Margarido & Falk Giemsa Respondent : Gonzalo Lavin, ing., Patent Agent (Goudreau Gage Dubuc) Friday, October 20, 2017, New Chancellor Day Hall, Room 202, 13:00-14:30 The presentation concerns the examination practice of computer-implemented inventions (CII) in the field of business methods, gaming, […] Read more
CIPP News IP News this month
IP News September 2017
Welcome to IP News This Month. Here’s your 5-minute guide to all things intellectual property, culled from news reports from around the world. Tips or comments? Send them direct to jeffjohnroberts AT gmail.com. Thanks for reading! – Jeff Top 3 Stories Pharma firm and tribe cut a deal to protect IP: Allergan will pay the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe at least $14M to invoke […] Read more
Events
POP Montreal: A Tribute to Sandy Pearlman, by McGill Law Professors and a Graduate
September 13, 2017 Copyright Law
Sandy Pearlman (1943–2016) was a legendary producer and music industry visionary. As an early proponent of online music distribution, he was thinking creatively about how artists could get paid for online music circulation long before the age of mass streaming and downloading. Pearlman also served as the Schulich Distinguished Chair of music at McGill University […] Read more
CIPP/Lallemand Seminars Events
CIPP/Lallemand seminar “Poisonous Science : the Dark Side of Academic Copyright in the Digital Age”
Lecturer: Prof. Roberto Caso Abstract: Copyright on academic and scientific publications (papers, articles, essays, books etc.) is the result of the interaction between formal rules (copyright law), social norms (norms of science) and technology (printing press, digital technologies). Prior to the digital age, academic copyright has had two main functions. a) Priority. The acknowledgment of […] Read more
CIPP/Lallemand Seminars Events
CIPP/Lallemand Seminar “Brexit: Creating A New IP Landscape?”
Graeme B. Dinwoodie is the Professor of Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law at the University of Oxford, Director of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, and a University Professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. He has previously taught at the National University of Singapore (as the Yong Shook Lin Professor in Intellectual Property Law), New York University University […] Read more
CIPP/Lallemand Seminars Events
CIPP/Lallemand Seminar “Global Law of Monopolies, Human Rights, and Access to Medicines”
Lecturer: Prof. Calixto Salomão Filho Discussant: Prof. Daniel Weinstock In the global arena, frequently the effectiveness of human rights is dependent upon the adoption of structural measures to curb market power of monopolies or big enterprises. In the case of the access to drugs, it can require the adoption of strategic litigation aiming at the […] Read more
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IP News August 2017
Welcome to IP News This Month. Here’s your 5-minute guide to all things intellectual property, culled from news reports from around the world. Loyal readers – we’re in the process of improving IP News. Have any suggestions? What do you like or dislike? Email me: jeffjohnroberts@gmail.com. Thanks for reading! – Jeff. Top 3 Stories Who killed the promise doctrine? Prof Gold’s whodunnit exposes how […] Read more
CIPP News Events Other News
Responsible Openness: What you need to know to get started today – RDA 10th Plenary Collocated event
CIPP’s Pierre-Emmanuel Moyse speaking at Research Data Alliance’s 10th Plenary session, to be held in Montreal. He will be participating in a panel on on Security, Intellectual Property, Privacy, and Integrity of Open Research Data, held on September 18th in collaboration with Université de Montréal, the Cyberjustice Laboratory and the Chaire LexUM, where he will discuss Licensing Open Research Data. […] Read more
