I intervened in the Federal Court of Appeal in the case of Benjamin Morre v. The Attorney General of Canada. I argued on behalf of The Canadian Health and LIfe Insurance Association and Insurance Bureau of Canada. The case concerned a new test that had been advanced by the Intelectual Property Institute in Canada and adopted by the trial division.  If confirmed, this new test would considerably expand the patenting of business methods and remove restrictions on such patents such as those that exist in other countries such as the US and the EU.

I participated in a panel session on the Law of Raw Data, as part of  the launch of a Wolters Kluwer book where I was the author of the chapter on Canada. The panel was chaired by Jan Bernd Nordemann from Germany and included Elisa Huusk from Finland and John Osha from the United States. . We had an interesting discussion comparing the new European approach to protecting unstructed data with the North American approach which has so far favoured limited protection for such data. 

On April 22, 2022, I participated as a panelist at the Fordham Law School's Hansen annual intellectual property conference. The subject was Fair Use and in particular the recent US Second Circuit Warhol decision and the Supreme Court decision in Google v. Oracle.  Speakers on the panel included Prof Jane Ginsburg, Joseph Gratz and Daan Erikson.

I am pleased to report that I have authored the Canadian chapter of a new book entitled "Law of Raw Data" published by Wolters Kluwer. This book was edited by Christian Czychowski and Jan Bernd Nordemann.  It followed from a study on IP rights in data that was undertaken  by the AIPPI in 2020.