The Supreme Court came through with a judgement wiping out the promise doctrine in Canadian patent law. My financial post editorial on it is here.
No wonder Canadians aren’t more innovative: Look how poorly we protect innovators’ rights
New op-ed from the Financial Post. You can find it here.
Intellectual Property Policy for Canada–Part 3
And finally, here is part 3.
New Intellectual Property Policy for Canada–Part 2
The second part of my 3 part series of papers for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute on a new IP strategy for Canada is published today, here:.
A New Intellectual Property Policy
I recently published the first of 3 papers reviewing the basis for a new intellectual property policy for Canada: it can be found here.
Canadian patent law is corrupted and that will come back to haunt us when Trump re-opens NAFTA
New op-ed on patent utility here.
Google v. Equustek
Canada’s Supreme Court recently heard arguments in Google v. Equustek, a case that will establish a critical precedent on how lawful the Internet should be. How should the court decide? My answer is here.
Catholic hospitals and assisted dying
Weighing in on a rather different topic today, thanks to inspiration from Ellen Wiebe. Our article on assisted dying restrictions in Catholic hospitals can be found here.
The UN on Drugs
Sean Speer and I have recently published on the well-intentioned and badly-conceived Report of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Access go Medicines. It can be found here on the Macdonald-Laurier site: http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/mandating-cheap-drugs-will-only-make-it-more-difficult-to-help-the-worlds-poor-sean-speer-and-richard-owens-in-inside-policy/
National Post Copyright Editorial
Here is my latest National Post editorial, on how our Supreme Court and legislature have erased important rights for educational publishers.