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Richard Owens

Richard Owens

NAFTA's "promise doctrine" decision a win for Ottawa, but a loss for Canadians: Richard Owens in the Financial Post

Last month's decision by a NAFTA tribunal will allow the federal government to continue to ignore the intellectual problems the "promise doctrine" creates,...

 

April 12, 2017 at 10:49 am read more
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Mandating drug access will only make it more difficult to help the world's poor: Sean Speer and Richard Owens in the Financial Post

The UN is wrong to think loosening intellectual property regulations will make drugs cheaper for the developing world, write Sean Speer and Richard...

 

September 29, 2016 at 10:43 am read more

Mandating cheap drug access will only make it more difficult to help the world’s poor: Sean Speer and Richard Owens in Inside Policy

A new United Nations report on the accessibility of medicine in the developing world calls for loosening intellectual property regulations to make drugs...

 

September 19, 2016 at 3:23 pm read more
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UN Panel delivers the wrong remedy for drug access: MLI Munk Senior Fellow Owens

Intellectual property expert Richard Owens explains that while the UN High Level Panel on Access to Medicines has laudable goals, its proposals would...

 

September 15, 2016 at 2:22 pm read more
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Fix Canada’s copyright law before it puts publishers out of business: Richard Owens in the Post

By not addressing shortcomings in Canada's copyright system, poorly-written laws are threatening the publishing market. As Richard C. Owens argues in the Financial Post, copyright...

 

July 27, 2016 at 10:32 am read more
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Dodged bullet or missed opportunity with CHEO settlement?: Richard Owens for the MLI IP newsletter

While there was certainly a win on the costs of genetic testing, the long-term effects of Transgenomic’s departure from the Canadian market, and...

 

May 12, 2016 at 10:29 am read more
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Stop the TPP-IP media pile-on: Richard Owens for the MLI IP newsletter

It has become fashionable to declare the Trans-Pacific Partnership intellectual property provisions a disaster for innovation in Canada, writes Richard C. Owens. But...

 

May 12, 2016 at 10:24 am read more

Jim Balsillie is wrong about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Richard Owens tells BNN

Don’t believe the alarmists like Jim Balsillie, says Macdonald-Laurier Institute author Richard Owens – not much is going to change for intellectual property...

 

December 18, 2015 at 11:44 am read more
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