Week 3 Guest Speaker: Roch Ripley of Gowlings

Roch Ripley is a great friend and co-author of the 2nd Edition of Video Game. He is a partner in Gowlings’ Vancouver office and is co-chair of their Technology Industry Group. He has been an Adjunct Professor in this course and has always been very supportive of its goals. He will be speaking to you in the second hour this coming Wednesday (Sept. 17, 2013). Roch will share his perspectives, focussing primarily on End User and other agreements, which have become such a huge part of the video game law landscape.

Roch is a serious fan of the Street Fighter video game series.

To borrow from the Gowlings bio of him:

“His areas of expertise include computer-implemented and software technologies, integrated devices, clean technologies and electronics. A registered patent agent in both Canada and the United States, Roch has significant experience drafting and prosecuting both domestic and foreign patent applications, opining on patent infringement and validity, conducting technology audits and advising on how to utilize copyrights, trade-marks, industrial designs, and trade secrets in addition to patents to best protect technology. To help his clients profit from intellectual property, Roch drafts technology licenses and development agreements, handles intellectual property aspects of technology company financings and enforces intellectual property rights against infringing parties.

PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS• Co-author, “T-shirt tempest tests copyright law,” Vancouver Sun, February 2013• Adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia teaching Law 450: Video Game Law with Jon Festinger (Spring 2013)• Video Game Law, 2nd ed., Markham, ON: LexisNexis, 2012. Co-authored by Jon Festinger and Chris Metcalfe• Author of summaries for the Canadian Bar Association Intellectual Property Review, including: “Use of Term “Substantial Payment” Renders Settlement Document Unenforceable” (Feb. 2011); “Federal Court of Appeal Clarifies Meaning of Patentable Subject Matter” (Nov. 2011); “Court Rejects Opposition of WRANGLER Mark Based on Lack of Confusion” (June 2010); and “Court Decides What Evidence to Admit Pursuant to Rule 289” (May 2009)• “The Interconnection of Intellectual Property and Cultural Property.” Protection of First Nations Cultural Heritage: Laws, Policy, and Reform. Eds. Robert Paterson, Catherine Bell. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2009. Chapter co-authored with Robert G. Howell”

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