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Understanding The New Virtualist Paradigm, Jonathon Penney
Understanding The New Virtualist Paradigm, Jonathon Penney
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This article discusses the central ideas within an emerging body of cyberlaw scholarship I have elsewhere called the "New Virtualism". We now know that the original "virtualists"- those first generation cyberlaw scholars who believed virtual worlds and spaces were immune to corporate and state control - were wrong; these days, such state and corporate interests are ubiquitous in cyberspace and the Internet. But is this it? Is there not anything else we can learn about cyberlaw from the virtualists and their utopian dreams? I think so. In fact, the New Virtualist paradigm of cyberlaw scholarship draws on the insights of …
Demythologizing Phosita: Applying The Non-Obviousness Requirement Under Canadian Patent Law To Keep Knowledge In The Public Domain & Foster Innovation, Matthew Herder
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The Supreme Court of Canada recently revised the doctrine of non-obviousness in a pharmaceutical “selection patent” case, Apotex Inc. v. Sanofi-Synthelabo Canada Inc. Although cognizant of changes to the same doctrine in the United States and the United Kingdom, a critical flaw in how the doctrine is being applied in Canada escaped the Court’s attention. Using content analysis methodology, this article shows that Canadian courts frequently fail to characterize the “person having ordinary skill in the art” (PHOSITA) for the purpose of the obviousness inquiry. The article argues that this surprisingly common analytical mistake betrays a deep misunderstanding of innovation, …