The new USMCA deal is great for Canadian innovators: Richard Owens in the Financial Post
Critics of the new IP rules seem to think Canada is a technology backwater incapable of fully securing its rightful place in the...
Strengthening Canada's intellectual property regime should be first and foremost: Owens and Speer in the Hill Times
We should recognize the failures of Canada's innovation policy industrial complex and strengthen our intellectual property regime, write Richard Owens and Sean Speer ...
Copyright and patent provisions in USMCA largely to Canada’s benefit: MLI's Richard Owens available to comment
OTTAWA, ON (October 2, 2018): The provisions on copyright and patents in the new US-Mexico-Canada Agreement should be seen as wins for Canadians,...
Trump says Canadians are unfairly freeloading off American drugs. He’s right: Richard Owens and Stephen Ezell in the Financial Post
It’s time for Canada to grow up and to purge the defeatist parasitism that sometimes characterizes our policy-making, write Richard Owens and Stephen...
PHOTOS and VIDEO: The Best Medicine: Ensuring affordable and accessible drugs in Canada
The federal government is proposing dramatic changes to the pricing of new patented medicines in Canada, and it announced in its recent budget...
Canadian courts still think intellectual-property laws matter: Richard Owens in the Financial Post
Canadian courts have occasionally gone along with poor IP judgments; but they have quickly come to their senses, writes Richard Owens. By Richard...
The Trudeau government is building a wall to keep out life-saving drugs: Owens in the Financial Post
If you don’t know what the PMPRB is, you should — it holds the power of life and death over us, writes Richard...
Planned Changes to Drug Pricing Could Have Serious Economic and Health Consequences: MLI study
OTTAWA, ON (Feb. 8, 2018): A little discussed federal government plan to reduce prices for new drugs must be re-examined to consider the impact...
Canadian Courts are Correcting Course on Intellectual Property Issues: New MLI Study
OTTAWA, ON (Jan. 31, 2018): Canadian courts, in particular the Supreme Court of Canada, have in recent years issued intellectual property (IP) judgments that...
Governments should not have a monopoly over drug development: Richard Owens and Sean Speer for Inside Policy
The World Health Organization (WHO) is exploring possibly sweeping changes to intellectual property policies in the name of cheaper drug prices, write Richard...
