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Professor Siebrasse clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada for the Honourable Madam Justice McLachlin during the 1991-1992 term and joined the Faculty of Law at the Univeristy of New Brunswick in 1993. He was named University Research Professor in 2000. His primary area of research is patent law. His blog Sufficient Description comments on recent Canadian patent law cases, as well as selected cases from other jurisdictions.

Selected Reports and Publications:

• The Structure of the Law of Patentable Subject Matter, 23(2) I.P.J. 169 - 204 (2011)
• The Rule Against Abstract Claims: History and Principles, 26(2) C.I.P.R. 205 - 229 (2011)
• The Rule Against Abstract Claims: A Critical Perspective on US Jurisprudence, (2011) 27(1) C.I.P.R. 3 - 30
• — and Catherine Walsh (McGill), Leveraging Knowledge Assets: Reducing Uncertainty for Security Interests in Intellectual Property, (2004) 98 pages, for the Law Commission of Canada.
• The Innocent Bystander Problem in the Patenting of Higher Life Forms, 49(2) McGill Law Journal 349 - 392 (2004)
• A Remedial Benefit-Based Approach to the Innocent User Problem in the Patenting of Higher Life Forms, 20(1) Canadian Intellectual Property Review 79-134 (2004) (Cited with approval by the Supreme Court of Canada in Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser, 2004 SCC 34, at para. 102.)
• A Property Rights Theory of the Limits of Copyright, 51(1) University of Toronto Law Journal 1-61 (2001)