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Richard Owens

The Threat Huawei Poses to Canada

Should Canada be concerned about Huawei and Chinese infiltration into Canada's economy? According to a panel of experts, we should absolutely be worried....

October 19, 2018 at 8:01 pm
Richard Owens

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...

 

October 5, 2018 at 7:22 pm read more
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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 ...

 

October 3, 2018 at 2:50 pm read more
Richard Owens

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,...

 

October 2, 2018 at 3:34 pm read more

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...

 

June 28, 2018 at 7:16 pm read more

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...

 

March 28, 2018 at 3:46 pm read more

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...

 

February 28, 2018 at 5:11 pm read more

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...

 

February 22, 2018 at 8:20 pm read more

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...

 

February 8, 2018 at 4:56 pm read more

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...

 

January 31, 2018 at 2:44 pm read more
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    OTTAWA, ON (February 14, 2019):  A recent series of speeches, articles, and debates is provoking big questions about deficits and debt. Do they...

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Ep. 23 - Huawei and the Future of Canada-China Relations with Shuvaloy Majumdar and Ward Elcock

In this episode, MLI Munk Senior Fellow Shuvaloy Majumdar is joined once again by the venerable Ward Elcock, one of Canada most decorated...

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