With its unanimous decision in AstraZeneca v. Apotex the Supreme Court of Canada restored order to Canadian patent law, doing away with the invidious promise doctrine. My National Post article can be found here.
Finally! An end to the promise doctrine
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.
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/