LAWG 220D1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Canadian Patent Law, Intangibility, Proposition
23 Dec 2018
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Vanilla ice cream poster example: copyright: the text of the recipe, expression of the recipe, combination of basic text of how to make ice cream and the design, foots, design, etc. Copyright: gives you the sole right to produce or reproduce the work or any substantial part thereof in any material form (s. 3(1) copyright act, life of the author + 50years. In usa lots of criticism on continuous extending of property rights. Improvement: public polity of ideas, however most people do not do this for copyright, piper: ip only benefits the 1% of people. If yes, would be property for purposes of. Ccp: the tri-tex chemical formulae are ideas and as such are not subject to copyright. : no: goudreau: code does distinguish between property and information or right of intellectual property. This supports a rejection of the notion that information can be assimilated with property. Ccp: no basis for tri-tex to have seized the documents.
