Who Are We?

The CIPP’s mission is to advance research and policy formation of intellectual property and innovation systems.

To achieve this mission the CIPP focuses on three interconnected priority areas:

• The CIPP carries out interdisciplinary research to understand the role of intellectual property policies and rules in contributing to creativity and innovation. In particular, the Centre examines if and how intellectual property contributes to broad social goals such as increased health, cultural development, access to information and economic growth.
• The CIPP enhances understanding of intellectual property and innovation systems among students at McGill University at the undergraduate, graduate and executive level, as well as within the community.
• The CIPP disseminates its research through workshops and conferences.

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News

— CIPP Seminars 2011-2012 - Professor Jason Mazzone - Copyfraud and Other Abuses of Intellectual Property Law
Quebec Bar - Accreditation of this activity is pending.
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— CIPP Seminar 2011-2012: Professor Pierre Larouche - "Apple, Google, Intel: high-tech giants in the line of fire of competition authorities"
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— CIPP Seminars Series 2011-2012 - Professor David Vaver from Osgoode Hall Law School - Faculty of Law, McGill University, 3644 Peel Street, Room 16
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— How Virtue Ethics Might Help Erase C-32’s Conceptual Incoherence
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— An “Independent” View of Bill C-32’s Copyright Reform
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IP News This Month

— The Hollywood-backed Stop Online Piracy Act is giving rise to the MOST CONTENTIOUS IP FIGHT IN THE US SINCE THE DMCA. Opponents, who warn the bill has grave technological and free speech implications, gained momentum in late December thanks to new support from the political right and warnings that Google, Facebook et al could shut down their sites in protest. Look for a finale in late January.

— In an EPIC WEEK FOR COPYRIGHT, the Supreme Court of Canada heard five separate appeals on the meaning of broadcasting and fair dealing. The cases taken together suggest the Court is laying new bedrock for copyright jurisprudence in the digital age.

— The INSANITY OVER SMARTPHONE PATENTS may have CRESTED following the ITC’s decision to grant Apple an import ban on certain Android phones. The ban was narrow and allowed time for a patent workaround. This and other decisions in Germany and Australia have blunted the effectiveness of Apple’s strategy to wield injunctions to keep iPhone and iPad competitors out of the market.
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