Contracts, Copyright & Data on the Internet of Things
How do consumer contracts deal with copyright and data on the Internet of Things? Our research identifies copyright related restrictions, as well as competition, data portability and privacy issues.
Trade, IP, and Innovation: Lessons from COVID-19
This chapter addresses intersections among international trade law, intellectual property rights, and domestic innovation policies to prevent, detect, and treat pandemics.
Judging Intellectual Property Overlaps
How do judges draw lines between different intellectual property laws? Answers are in this research examining case law in the United States and Canada on the overlap of patents and plant breeders’ rights.
A Data Commons for Food Security
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.
Canada’s Copyright Tariff-Setting Process
My empirical research findings deliver unique understanding of Canada’s tariff-setting procedures, enabling more informed debate about copyright issues…
Best Practices for Intellectual Property in International Trade Deals
Intellectual property provisions in international agreements should not be negotiated secretly, but transparently…
Present Thinking About the Future of IP: A Literature Review
The way we think about the future influences how we think and behave in the present. Truly informative work…
Does Hyperlinking Create Liability for Copyright Infringement in Canada or the European Union?
This peer-reviewed article in the European Intellectual Property Review provides a timely comparative analysis of recent Canadian and European Union (EU) copyright cases regarding the nature and scope of communication rights, as applied to the issue of copyright infringement liability for hyperlinking. Mira Burri and I link possible copyright infringement for hyperlinking with the pertinent international […]
Knowledge and Innovation in Africa: Scenarios for the Future
The question is not whether IP rights will be relevant in the future, but rather which rights will be most important…
Intellectual Property and Innovation: Collaborative Dynamics in Africa
These case studies show how IP can aid collaborative innovation systems if policymakers prioritise…
