November 19, 2016 • 8:30 AM 5:00 PM
Phi Centre 407 rue Saint Pierre Espace A Montreal, QC H2Y 2M3
The word “innovation” pops up everywhere. It refers to everything from technology to services to economic growth – but is innovation just about goods and services or does it depend on who we are, our institutions, culture and education? To highlight the social context of innovation, we are organizing a one-day interdisciplinary workshop, Innovation in […] Read more
November 8, 2016 • 9:00 AM 12:00 PM
McGill University Faculty of Law, 3644 Peel Street, Montreal
Join the CIPP on November 8th for a Supreme Court of Canada viewing party! It’s AstraZeneca (The Swedes) vs. Apotex (The Canadians) in an epic struggle over patent law! Come see the future of Canadian innovation be legislated by (up to!) nine Justices in a no-holds-barred battle royale. The morning’s proceedings will feature all the […] Read more
November 2, 2016 • 13:30 17:30 (followed by a cocktail offered by Fasken Martineau)
CEIM, 20 Queen Street, Montreal, 3rd floor (south of Wellington)
Law and innovation are usually framed in technological terms. Discussions focus on the means to incentivize technological development and regulate the use of new technologies. The assumption is that technological change is consubstantial with societal progress. As a result, lawyers and policy makers focus their efforts and critiques on whether or not law effectively supports or […] Read more
May 27, 2016 • 2:30
Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre Hotel, Toronto
Sarah E. Ali-Khan will be speaking at the Canadian Bioethics Society Conference presenting research on the patenting of human genes in Canada. Read more
April 15, 2016
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
March 17, 2016 • 13h 14h30
NCDH (3644 Peel), Room 316
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
February 22, 2016 • 13h 14h30
NCDH, Room 202, Faculty of Law, McGill University
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
January 29, 2016 • 14:00 18:00
Centre d’entreprises et d’innovation de Montréal : 20 Queen Street, 3rd floor, Montreal, QC , H3C 2M7
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
January 20, 2016 • 16h00 17h30
McGill Faculty of Law, New Chancellor Day Hall, Room 316
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