Management and Organizational Studies 2276A/B Study Guide - Property Law

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2276A/B
• Professor: Frederick King

Document Summary

Property law the struggle over who gets what rights and who owns which things. Property a relationship between people with respect to things. Economic arguments: if we want people to create new things, we must give monetary incentive, the creator has the right to profit from his or her work because they were the one who created it. Patented lego blocks all over the world and profited highly from it. Their patent expired so they tried to claim all property rights regarding anything made like their lego blocks to maintain their monopoly. Mega blocks essentially the same thing as lego blocks, indistinguishable products. Trademarks act: this case was the first challenge to the trademarks act that might be unconstitutional. Mega blocks said that the trademarks act was unconstitutional the federal government didn"t have jurisdiction in this area, property is provincial. It was found that the federal government did have legislation in the trademark act area.