Richard Owens is a lawyer specializing in business and commercial law, intellectual property and technology. Richard is past chair of the board of directors of the University of Toronto Innovations Foundation, and a member of the advisory committee to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. He is a member of the board of the Center for Innovation Law and Policy at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, and has been a long-serving director of the International Technology Law Association, and has led several of its committees.
Richard also teaches courses on the law of information technology and electronic commerce, innovation law and policy, intellectual property, digital content and the interests of the artist, and the law and policy of biotechnology, all at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where he also served as the Executive Director of the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy. Richard has written and published widely on the law of information technology, privacy, and the regulation of financial institutions. He has served drug companies and others in regulation, technology, intellectual property strategy and patent law, licensing and other areas. He has been repeatedly recognized as one of Canada’s leading technology lawyers.
