Thought Leadership

Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau and Véronique Newman released “Whistleblowing in Canada: A Knowledge Synthesis Report”, a new report on whistleblowers in Canada supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Professor Mistrale Goudreau has published the 3^rd edition of her field-leading book Intellectual Property Law in Canada. In addition to being published as part of Wolters Kluwer’s International Encyclopaedia of Laws series, the book is also available as of December 2017 as a separate paperback book, printed on demand.

Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau, Director of the Centre and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, publishes "Le droit de marque : une approche fonctionnelle dans l'économie globale et numérique" with LexisNexis Canada.

This blog post is part of series written by students who attended “Following the Signs: New Directions in Trademark Law”, a symposium on the new Canadian trademark framework hosted by the Centre for Law, Technology and Society on May 8^th, 2017. The video recording of Prof. David Vaver’s keynote “Towards a Distinctive Trademark Law for the 21st Century” is available here.

by Chelsey Colbert – On Thursday, March 30, four uOttawa law students (Florence So, J.D. 2018, Marshall Jeske, J.D. 2018, Suzie Dunn, LL.M 2018 and myself) began the eight-hour road trip to New Haven, Connecticut for WeRobot 2017. New Haven is a small coastal city known for Yale University. Yale Law School was the venue of WeRobot, a two-day conference with panel discussions from the who’s who in robot law and policy.

By Alyssa Gaffen, Meika Ellis, Jeremy de Beer, and Adam Soliman -- Is intellectual property (IP) gender neutral? No, it isn’t. Neither is the dominant discourse of innovation. Recognizing the bias is the first step toward remedying it.

Professor Jane Bailey is a co-editor, alongside Karim Benyehklef, Jacquelyn Burkell and Fabien Gelinas, of a new book entitled eAccess to Justice, published by uOttawa Press.  It is part of a new series on law and technology and is available for free download.

By Prof. Chidi Oguamanam – Between September 19 and 23, 2016, the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) commenced the first of a two-part negotiation over a potential instrument for the effective protection of traditional knowledge (TK), pursuant to its mandate for the 2016-2017 biennium. In the summer, the IGC concluded negotiations on Genetic Resources (GRs) with an advanced draft text on the subject in accordance with the committee’s strategic decision to split its negotiations into three streams: TK, GRs and Traditional Cultural Expression (TCEs) with a view to generating three draft treaty instruments. The tripartite nature of the IGC negotiating documents are without prejudice to their likely future consolidation into a single treaty instrument should the WIPO General Assembly ultimately so decide.

Don’t be stymied by confusing wireless service contracts. Know your rights as a Canadian telecom consumer before you head out to catch ‘em all.

CIPPIC, the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic, and Citizen Lab are releasing a report, "Gone Opaque? An Analysis of Hypothetical IMSI Catcher Overuse in Canada", which examines the use of devices that are commonly referred to as ‘cell site simulators’, ‘IMSI Catchers’, ‘Digital Analyzers’, or ‘Mobile Device Identifiers’, and under brand names such as ‘Stingray’, DRTBOX, and ‘Hailstorm’. IMSI Catchers are a class of of surveillance devices used by Canadian state agencies. They enable state agencies to intercept communications from movie devices and are principally used to identify otherwise anonymous individuals associated with a mobile device and track them.