Intellectual Property Policy – Page 5 – Intellectual Property and Innovation Law and Policy

05/05/2017

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.

24/09/2016

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/

27/07/201631/07/2016

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.

13/07/201613/07/2016

How to Really Support Canadian Culture: Heritage and the Copyright Brief

I just published, through the MacDonald Laurier Institute, a new paper on issues facing Heritage Canada in the upcoming (2017) Copyright Act review, and otherwise. It can be found here.

I am a technology, intellectual property and business lawyer (now retired from practice) based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. With this blog I hope to broaden the discussions of issues that interest me. As a writer and photographer, I identify with the interests of authors and artists in IP-related issues. I have taught at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law as an adjunct professor for almost 25 years, a variety of technology and IP courses, and was for 6 years the Executive Director of its Centre for Innovation Law and Policy, and am a past chair of the Innovations Foundation of the University of Toronto. I am a Munk Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. I can be reached at RCO@Richardcowens.com