Reflections on Cinar Corp. v. Robinson (Part I)
In Cinar Corporation v Robinson (2013 SCC 73 [Robinson]), the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) endorsed a “qualitative” and “holistic” approach to determining when an infringer has copied a “substantial...
View ArticleProfessor Jennifer Rothman Innovation Law and Policy Workshop
On December 3, 2014, the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy welcomes Professor Jennifer Rothman of Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, as part of our 2014-2015 Innovation Law and Policy Workshops at the...
View Article2015 Grafstein Lecture: Konrad von Finckenstein
The Centre for Innovation Law and Policy and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law welcome Konrad von Finckenstein, former Chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunication Commission...
View ArticleReflections on Cinar Corporation v. Robinson (Part II)
As we noted in an earlier post, Cinar Corporation v. Robinson (2013 SCC 73 [Robinson]) endorsed a “holistic” approach over a “reductive” one for assessing substantiality in cases of copyright...
View ArticleThird Annual Patent Colloquium: User Innovation in Theory and Practice
The panel on user innovation sought to explore and complicate the standard description of innovation, in which industry develops and improves products, motivated by the prospect of economic return....
View ArticleThird Annual Patent Colloquium: Patent Assertion Entities (PAE’s) as Market...
Patent assertion entities (PAEs), also commonly referred to as patent trolls, operate on a business model of buying patents and asserting them against businesses already practicing those patented...
View ArticleThird Annual Patent Colloquium: Sequential Innovation and Patent Pooling
Sequential innovation is exactly what it sounds like, one innovation building on another. In general this is something we would like to encourage because further innovation helps improve on the...
View ArticleThird Annual Patent Colloquium: Standard-Essential Patents
Standard-setting organizations or standard development organizations (SSOs or SDOs, respectively) establish technical standards that allow for interoperability across different platforms. For example,...
View ArticleComing March 12: 2014 Report on Data Privacy Transparency of Canadian ISPs
On March 12, 2015, the 2014-2015 CILP student working group will launch a visual, online representation analyzing the transparency of Canada’s “Big Three” wireless carriers’ privacy policies in...
View ArticleOur Busy Faculty
CILP Co-Director Abraham Drassinower‘s new book, What’s Wrong with Copying?, will be available from Harvard University Press on March 9th. Professor Margaret Jane Radin will give the 2015...
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