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Website: Centre for Intellectual Property Policy
Read: CV & publications [.pdf] (Rev. October 2023)Ìý
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Reports, briefs and facta

CIPP Factum for the AstraZeneca v. Apotex SCC case [.pdf] (October 2016)
Public Health Access Agrement in Respect of Long QT Gene patents between CHEO and Transgenomics Inc. [.pdf]
Ground-breaking settlement changes landscape for genetic medicine in Canada (Ottawa, March 9, 2016) [.pdf]
CIPPIC/CIPP Amicus Brief on arbitration between Eli Lilly & Government of Canada [.pdf] (February 12, 2016)
Children’s Hospital sues over gene patent, with help from top º£ÍâÖ±²¥bÕ¾ Patent Law expert [.pdf] (November 3, 2014)
Gold et al US Supreme Court amicus brief [.pdf] (January 2013)
CIPP Factum filed with SCC in Plavix appeal (Apotex v. Sanofi-Aventis) (September 2014)

Lecture — Putting Innovation in Context

Research and Teaching

A James º£ÍâÖ±²¥bÕ¾ Professor, Richard Gold was the founding Director and current director of theÌýCentre for Intellectual Property Policy. He teaches in the area of intellectual property, international intellectual property, comparative intellectual property, innovation policy and intellectual property management. His research generally focuses on the life sciences.

Professor Gold has provided advice to Health Canada, Industry Canada, the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee, the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (where he was the lead author of the OECD Guidelines on the Licensing of Genetic Inventions and a report on Collaborative Mechanisms in Life Science Intellectual Property), the World Health Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization and UNITAID.

His research is currently supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Genome Canada, Genome Alberta, Genome Prairie, Genome Quebec, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Grand Challenges Canada. His previous work has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Genome Canada, the National Centres for Excellence and the National Institutes of Health. He is a Research Associate at the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta and was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute. His research has been published in high-impact journals in science, law, philosophy, international relations, includingÌýNature Biotechnology,ÌýThe Lancet,ÌýPLoS Medicine, laÌýRevue de droit de º£ÍâÖ±²¥bÕ¾,ÌýPublic Affairs Quarterly, International Studies Quarterly, theÌýEuropean Journal for International Relations. He has filed amicus briefs with the Supreme Court of the United States and with the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Professor Gold was Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) at the Faculty of Law from 2015 to 2019.

Education

• SJD Michigan, 1995
• LLM Michigan, 1992
• LLB (Hons) Toronto, 1988
• BSc º£ÍâÖ±²¥bÕ¾ (Computer Science & Mathematics), 1984

Employment

• Director, Centre for Intellectual Property Policy, º£ÍâÖ±²¥bÕ¾, 2020-
• Associate Dean (Graduate Studies), º£ÍâÖ±²¥bÕ¾'s Faculty of Law, 2015-2019
• James º£ÍâÖ±²¥bÕ¾ Professor, º£ÍâÖ±²¥bվ’s Faculty of Law and Dept of Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, since 2011
• Full Professor, º£ÍâÖ±²¥bÕ¾'s Faculty of Law and Dept of Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, since 2010
• Associate Professor, º£ÍâÖ±²¥bÕ¾'s Faculty of Law, 2001-2010
• President, The Innovation Partnership, 2008-2013
• Director, Centre for Intellectual Property Policy, º£ÍâÖ±²¥bÕ¾, 2003-2008
• Research Associate, Health Law Institute, University of Alberta since 2000
• Fellow, Einstein Institute for Science, Health & the Courts, 1999-2000
• Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, 1997-2001
• Associate, Torys, Technology Practice Group, 1993-1997
• Clerk to Mr. Justice Peter Cory, Supreme Court of Canada, 1990-1991
• Associate, Torys, 1990
• Clerk, Ontario Court of Appeal, 1988-1989

Areas of Interest

Intellectual property, biotechnology, property, commercial practices, comparative law, international trade law.