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Industry committee As soon as they apply.
May 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Sylvain Laporte
Industry committee That a decision is made. You could withdraw your patent at some point.
May 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Sylvain Laporte
Industry committee With patent pending, no. I think all you're doing is indicating to the market that you have something playing in that area, and what it does, basically, is it gets your competitors to pay attention to it. They want to make sure that if I'm building something that is pretty much
May 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Sylvain Laporte
Industry committee From that perspective, yes.
May 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Sylvain Laporte
Industry committee Correct. There are other situations, for example in the health industries and the pharmaceutical area, where there's a synchronization that has to happen with the allocation of your patent and certification with the health agencies. They may require more time to process a paten
May 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Sylvain Laporte
Industry committee We don't play a role. The patent belongs to the entity that owns it.
May 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Sylvain Laporte
Industry committee We provide the entire timeframe, because you are going to hear about how much time it takes; that it's very long. Well, it is long because we have that five-year period in Canada, which is something that does not exist in many other countries.
May 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Sylvain Laporte
Industry committee In fact, I can tell you today. If we take out the average time for someone to request that we examine, we are at about 48 months.
May 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Sylvain Laporte
Industry committee I can do it now. It is apples and oranges, because the laws are very different. In the United States, for example, it's 39 months compared with our 48. But they have different tests of law from ours. That's why you have to take the comparisons with a grain of salt. We are sligh
May 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Sylvain Laporte
Industry committee That's a good question. The answer is quite complicated. We can probably speak off-line if you want to look at the details. I want to leave you with a few tidbits of information. One, when we grant a trademark it has a national scope. Two, official marks are trademarks that we g
May 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Sylvain Laporte
Industry committee We need to look at the details for that one, unfortunately.
May 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Sylvain Laporte
Industry committee I'm not aware of such a limitation.
May 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Sylvain Laporte
May 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Sylvain Laporte
Industry committee I'm getting into a bit of unfamiliar territory with respect to the Trade-marks Act.
May 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Sylvain Laporte
Industry committee Round tables are currently under way with business owners. We just finished one in Quebec with a business owner who had used the IP regime properly. She told us that business owners were quite apprehensive about the whole thing because it takes a lot of money and because they hav
May 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Sylvain Laporte