Intellectual Property

IP News September 2018
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. Tell your friends to subscribe here! – Jeff Top 3 Stories Europe strikes back: EU passes copyright directive to counter North American approach to the Internet. Supporters say it will mean […] Read more

IP News August 2018
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: jeffjohnroberts AT gmail.com. Know someone who likes IP News? Tell them to sign up here! Top 3 Stories Who killed the promise doctrine? Prof Gold’s whodunnit exposes how Eli Lilly subverted Canadian patent law with phony legal doctrines […] Read more

Francis Lord défend sa thèse avec succès!
Le 28 février 2018, Francis Lord, membre du CIPP, a défendu avec succès sa thèse de doctorat intitulée “The Legal Interpretation of Technology”. Le jury était composé des professeures E. Judge (U. Ottawa), J. Ellis (McGill), T. Piper (McGill), V. Gautrais (U. Montréal), L. Smith (McGill), A. Latreille (Paris-Saclay) et P.-E. Moyse (Directeur de thèse, McGill). Francis’s work is […] Read more

Innovation in Context 2: Scaling Up
November 18, 2017 • 9am November 18, 2017 • 5pm
Moot Court at McGill University’s Faculty of Law, located at 3644 Peel St, Montreal, QC H3A
The second annual Innovation in Context conference will take place on Saturday, November 18, from 9am – 5pm. This year’s theme is scaling up innovations—scaling up firms to international markets, scaling up the innovation ecosystem, and scaling up diversity. We can’t wait to continue the conversation on innovation in Montreal with our seasoned speakers from home and […] Read more

CIPP/Lallemand Seminar: Hacktivism
October 23, 2017 • 13:00 October 23, 2017 • 14:30
NCDH 316, 3644 Peel
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
A Consultation on Options for Reform to the Copyright Board of Canada
The government released a discussion paper on options for reform to the Copyright Board. Interested stakeholders are invited to share their views on the paper by emailing CBconsultations@canada.ca by September 29, 2017. Responses will be posted publicly thereafter. Read more

IP News June 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 Canada imposes IP Law on the World: In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court upheld a worldwide injunction that obliges Google to remove […] Read more