Free Trade, Federalism & Technology Policy: A Public Lecture
This public lecture and accompanying presentation, explained how free trade, federalism, and technology policy are integrally linked. Among the core challenges is implementing the intellectual property provisions of international trade agreements, such as the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) in federal systems, a topic I’ve researched and written about extensively during my co-leadership of the […]
La Commission du droit d’auteur: L’histoire juridique
“La Commission du Droit d’Auteur du Canada: vingt années à « faire » l’histoire juridique,” (2010) Vol. 22, nº 3 Les Cahiers de propriété intellectuelle 593-627, est la traduction française de mon article, “Twenty Years of Legal History (Making) at the Copyright Board of Canada.” Le présent article pose principalement comme thèse que la Commission du […]
Accounting of Profits to Remedy Biotechnology Patent Infringement
A number of important agricultural biotechnology patent disputes have arisen in Canada since the 2004 Supreme Court of Canada decision in Monsanto v. Schmeiser. Typically, defendants no longer contest issues of patent validity or infringement. Instead, the controversies have shifted to discussions about applicable remedies for infringement. The companion cases of Rivett v Monsanto and […]
Implementing the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Development Agenda
The Development Agenda presents a real opportunity to revolutionize the international governance of intellectual property law and policy…
The Future of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Development Agenda
Will WIPO’s “Development Agenda” be a game-changer for the global knowledge economy, or will it fail to bring about fundamental reforms? That’s the question that I convened a group of academics, diplomats, activists, and industry experts to answer at a retreat outside of Geneva in 2010. The Development Agenda for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) was […]
Benefits of Biodiversity
In this lesson, we evaluate strategies to equitably allocate the benefits of the world’s biodiversity (i.e. “life on earth”), most of which is concentrated in developing countries.
Remedies for Biotechnology Patent Infringement
A pair courts decisions have a big impact on remedies available for biotechnology patent infringement. Defendants in biotech patent lawsuits seem to be better off than previously thought. The result could mean revaluing Canadian patent portfolios based on enforceability issues, and revising business and intellectual property practices accordingly. Read the details in my article in The […]
Access to Knowledge in Africa: The Role of Copyright
This book gives the reader an understanding of the legal and practical issues posed by copyright for access to education and learning materials in Africa, and identifies the relevant lessons, best policies and best practices that would broaden and deepen this access. The emergence of the Internet and the digital world has changed the way […]
Orphan Works in Canada: Copyright Licensing for Owners Who Can’t Be Found
Copyright lasts for a long time. Because there’s formal registration requirement, owners are often unlocatable. Their works become orphan works. The issue of orphan works is one of the most pressing copyright law and policy problems of the 21st century. My co-author Mario Bouchard and I were the first experts to empirically study and then explain […]
Implementing WIPO’s Development Agenda in North Africa and the Middle East
The World Intellectual Property Organization invited me to speak about my trade and development research, specifically my book Implementing the WIPO’s Development Agenda, during an outreach and capacity-building seminar in Tunis, Tunisia. It was surprising (though in hindsight, it shouldn’t have been) that most of the representatives from WIPO’s Arab country member states had not even heard […]
