Industry committee  Thank you for the question. I think CIPO did submit in their documentation that one of the issues they're facing is outreach and getting to the community with the information they have. There are multiple organizations around the country, and a lot of them are of a national nat

Industry committee  Could you repeat that?

Industry committee  We did submit specific to SR and ED.

Industry committee  I'll answer your question first. To answer your first question, on whether a patent is used as a competitive advantage, it doesn't exist in isolation. It's part of the broader issues on the table. Most countries are larger than Canada in terms of market size, so in terms of attr

Industry committee  I think longer is one element of it. It's the other costs that go with it that are important. It's not only the filing process and going through the searches, but also the length of the patent. The big piece that also ties in with this is the enforceability. If you are going to h

Industry committee  It does, but it is one of many things. Only changing one variable may not be sufficient or attractive for a lot of companies. When you look at companies that are filing patents in Canada, they have Canadian indigenous companies that are filing patents here, and you also have the

Industry committee  I think it is an important one. It's a big variable.

Industry committee  Let me answer that from two points. Given the economic turmoil that's currently playing havoc in the world, Canada's rank and its strengths show it is a good place to invest and is a safe place to come and build your operation. By the same token, there are a couple of other sta

Industry committee  Synchronizing with the U.S., not in terms of exact copying but from a timeframe point of view, is a good aspirational goal to have. It cuts our timing by half. Currently, we are sitting between five and seven years, compared with their two to three years. I think it would be a g

Industry committee  I think there are several. One of them could be this: a lot of our young companies talk about generating revenues on patents and royalties, similar to some of the other regimes, like the U.K.’s. Maybe that should be incented, so you force the right commercialization of the patent

Industry committee  I think there are several things, and we have recently submitted several of them as part of the digital economy strategy to Industry Canada and to the ministry of finance. To foster the SMEs, you need to look at it from three vectors: one is the access to market, another is acces

Information & Ethics committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair, and my thanks to all members. I appreciate the opportunity to present at this committee. My name is Karna Gupta. I'm the president and CEO of ITAC, which is the Information Technology Association of Canada. We represent 350 or more companies across the

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for your question. I know you attended the WCIT in Montreal. As you heard from the rest of the world, we live in an open world, so you cannot control everything and contain it in a lockdown mode. We need to make sure we have the ability to manage the risks that are out

Information & Ethics committee  Digital deliveries need to start at school. We are working with several organizations that are building programs today at a high school level and even at the polytechnic and university level to deal with the digital literacy that young people get into. It is no different from any

Information & Ethics committee  When we talk to our members today, their general commentary is that they're very engaged with the Privacy Commissioner in developing all of the framework. There is no need to put a predetermined fine relative to anything. The courts can do that, if there is something breached, so