How do consumer contracts deal with copyright and data on the Internet of Things? That’s the question Jules Bélanger, Mohit Sethi, and I addressed in a report prepared for the Government of Canada. The growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to generate a number of...
Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19, a global collaborative project on the pandemic. Our contribution to the work examines the role of intellectual property rights, trade law, and domestic research in Canada’s preparedness for this pandemic. We identify issues that hindered Canada’s response and suggest reforms to...
How do judges draw lines between different intellectual property laws? Should a single invention be protected by more than one kind of intellectual property right? Answers are in this research examining case law in the United States and Canada on the overlap of patents and plant breeders’ rights. Published...
In this paper my co-authors Jeremiah Baarbé, Meghan Blom and I propose a ‘data commons’, formed through a licensing model that allows farmers to benefit from the datasets to which they contribute. Loading... Taking too long? Reload document | Open in new tab Download [918.17 KB] Agricultural data is globally...
Who will control the recreational cannabis market? What will that market look like? Our research suggests growth of the cannabis market will depend, in part, on intellectual property rights. In our article, “Intellectual Property Rights in Recreational Cannabis: Craft or Commodity”, Alyssa Gaffen and I explore intersections among patents, trademarks,...
https://youtu.be/jlb92sEB6X8The Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, CETA, is a done deal. Attention is now focussed on implementation, both in Canada and Europe. That doesn’t mean it is too soon to learn from the negotiation process. My testimony to the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade highlighted...