Industry committee  Thank you. First, in terms of your preliminary remarks about where we fall, that's obviously a difficult issue. If you have read our submission, you will see that it really doesn't take a strong position one way or another, but it identifies the areas of possible concern. In fai

Industry committee  Thank you, sir. Bonjour, and good morning. My name is David Schwartz. I'm a lawyer and a patent agent. I'm a partner in the firm Smart & Biggar, and I appear here today on behalf of my professional association, the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, or IPIC. I'm pl