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Speaker : Dr. Matthew Rimmer The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a highly secretive and expansive free trade agreement being negotiated between the US and eleven Pacific Rim countries, including Australia and Canada. This presentation provides a critical evaluation of key chapters of the TPP – including the intellectual property chapter; the investment chapter; the environment chapter, […] Read more

The CIPP proudly co-sponsored the annual meeting of the 2015 Private Law Consortium on July 6-7. The PLC is a group of leading private law scholars from 6 outstanding international law faculties: Bar Ilan (Israel), Harvard (USA), Pennsylvania (USA), Oslo (Norway), Trento (Italy) and McGill (Canada). The scholars who participate range from some of the […] Read more

Speaker: Prof. Michal Shur-Ofry (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Contemporary IP theory concentrates on the cumulative and incremental nature of innovation and creation: Authors and inventors as “standing on the shoulders of giants”. This talk highlights an additional type of innovation largely overlooked in IP discourse: innovation that breaks up with convention, disputes existing paradigms, or […] Read more

McGill’s Centre for Intellectual Property Policy presents Professor Rosemary Coombe of York University (http://www.yorku.ca/rcoombe/) on “Geographical Indications in New Contexts: The Promise, Perils and Politics of Protecting Place-Based Products”. Abstract: “Geographical indications (GIs) are increasingly promoted as a means to protect the livelihoods of rural farmers and serve local and indigenous development needs. States, international […] Read more