Industry committee  Less expensive in the long run? For sure they're going to save the legal fees, but if they don't get what they're expecting because they don't truly understand the law, they may be shooting themselves in the foot as well. I'm not sure if I understand your question properly.

Industry committee  We have an outreach team who does that. In fact we've been speaking to most of the universities and the technically oriented colleges in Canada. We also have, with various IP associations, a speakers bureau type of approach. We have canned presentations, such as IP 101, and how

Industry committee  There's no international court. IP really is a national legislative environment.

Industry committee  Yes, they are being prepared.

Industry committee  May I make a suggestion? We are going to wrap things up in late June. At that point, we could submit not only the notes from each round table, but also the report, provided that late Jane fits your timeline, of course.

Industry committee  When an application is submitted to us, it describes the invention in great detail and it makes claims with respect to what the rights should be, so all of that information, all of that package, is not made public. We keep it in our databases, locked tight, and we will not make i

Industry committee  That's a good question. It's probably one of those 1950s things that predates most of us.

Industry committee  The top 20 filers, yes.

Industry committee  York is a university I visited last week.

Industry committee  In order, they are the University of British Columbia, the University of Alberta, Queen's University, and Université Laval.

Industry committee  We talked earlier on about the strategic use of IP for each company, their own strategy. In your market, in your area of technology, there may be an advantage to create uncertainty. There may not be. Again, going back to the pharmaceutical companies, because of the synchronizat

Industry committee  Perhaps I could add to that. My colleague, who heads the U.S. IP office, humorously tells us that with the latest act that's been passed in the U.S., the America Invents Act, they're actually catching up to the rest of the world. So I'm sensing, through your questioning, that you

Industry committee  I would maybe offer an opinion that Canada has actually something that they are aspiring to. So they're going to take the next four to five years to implement this new America Invents Act to actually align themselves with a legal framework that is closer to the Canadian framework

Industry committee  I guess there are two perspectives to your answer: a policy perspective and an administration perspective. From an administration perspective there's quite a tremendous amount of effort to harmonize our various legal frameworks to make sure that we can operate a lot more smoothly