Canada’s IP Writing Challenge 2010

Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director IP Osgoode.
Michel Gérin is the Executive Director of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada.

The Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) and IP Osgoode are delighted to announce our 2010 Canadian writing challenge in intellectual property law. 

After a successful inaugural year, we are pleased to be running the writing challenge again this year.  Our goal is to further enhance thoughtful and well-researched intellectual property public policy scholarship and discussion. We encourage a broad range of perspectives, and topics can be from within the various categories of intellectual property law including patents, trade-marks, industrial design and copyright. 

There are three categories for entrants: 

1. Law student category (LL.B, J.D., BCL, and LL.L students)
2. Graduate student category (LL.M, S.J.D. and PhD students)
3. Professional category (legal and business professionals who have been practising 7 years or less, including patent agents and trade-mark agents).

Each winner will be eligible for:

1. A prize of $1000 (CAD)
2. His/her work to be published on the IP Osgoode website (www.iposgoode.ca)
3. Be considered for publication in the Canadian Intellectual Property Review; and/or Osgoode Hall Review of Law and Policy (OHRLP) (http://www.ohrlp.ca/)

The deadline is Canada Day, Thursday, July 1, 2010.

More details on Canada’s IP Writing Challenge are available here.

We look forward to reading your work and even greater participation this year!