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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.

par Chelsey Colbert (en anglais seulement) – 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.

Par Alyssa Gaffen, Meika Ellis, Jeremy de Beer, et 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.

par Pr. Chidi Oguamanam – (en anglais seulement) 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.

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