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...
How are copyright royalties established in Canada? What is the tariff-setting process? How long does it take? What has been written about it? These are just some of the questions answered in my empirical review of copyright tariff setting. My research was initially conducted on behalf of the Government of Canada (the Department...
Intellectual property provisions in international agreements should not be negotiated secretly, but transparently. They should not serve special interests, but the public interest. And they should not be one-sided, but fair and balanced. This can be done by adhering to the Max Planck Principles for Intellectual Property Provisions in Bilateral...