Canada has a profound cultural resistance to innovation, and reinforces that through counter-productive policies. Health care is one of the least innovative fields, and Canada does all it can to keep it that way. My recent op-ed in the Financial Post is here.
Global Trade and Intellectual Property Alliance Intellectual Property Principles
I helped draft–and aver!–these principles of intellectual property protection.
More bad ideas in drug price regulation
The federal government persists in putting forward ideas to make drugs less available and Canadians sicker. Now the US is upping the ante with ideas of its own. My Financial Post op-ed here.
Should we give it away?
Drug and medical device firms are giving stuff away in the face of the pandemic. Why? My latest op-ed is here.
Depressing drug prices is a bad idea
This is my latest editorial for the financial post on how damaging drug price controls are for the health of Canadians.
We are SO bad at innovation policy
Canadian innovation policy will make us a laughingstock. My MLI paper is here. See also my op-ed for the Hill Times, and reports of my interviews with them.
WHO’S AFRAID OF THE USMCA? Why the intellectual property provisions in the US Mexico Canada Agreement are good for Canada and its trading partners
My recent paper for MLI can be found here.
El Libero
I recently published an op ed on the importance of strong intellectual property rights in El Libero, a Santiago, Chile newspaper. It is here.
Ignore the naysayers. The new USMCA deal is great for Canadian innovators
See my latest from the Financial Post here.
The Liberal budget finally delivered an ‘intellectual property strategy.’ And it’s absolutely ridiculous Richard C. Owens: This is Podunk Canadiana. Imagine if government set up a program to help a canoe builder to acquire the right screws
The government’s new intellectual property strategy is an embarrassing mess. My Financial Post op-ed can be found here.