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Industry committee What incentives would make that happen? Mr. Henderson said earlier that it's business's responsibility, and they had better be working on it, and he's given examples of it. What can government do to encourage it? One idea is to promote what's important to them. I was on a board
May 15th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Ruth Corbin
Industry committee I didn't mean to say that we're not aligned. My remarks were regarding the ranking and measurement systems that they have, where Canada is ranked and applauded and not applauded on certain of its performance measures, and Canada is not responding with an integrated, confident sys
May 15th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Ruth Corbin
Industry committee I think we have to clarify that innovation is not intellectual property. Investing in innovation is investing in the hope that it may become intellectual property. It's not bad, but it's different from saying we have a regime that we are working to define and monetize. Is our in
May 15th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Ruth Corbin
Industry committee The main thing to realize is that manufacturing companies themselves have more than a majority of their asset value tied up in intellectual property. I don't see the inconsistency. You have manufacturers, but you recognize, as a leader of that organization, that the know-how, t
May 15th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Ruth Corbin
Industry committee Here's how you could help in a big way--use the words “intellectual property”. I'm just going to leave you with one big idea. Nobody knows what it is, and yet here we're talking about what we believe to be one of the most important things in the country. One time, when I spoke t
May 15th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Ruth Corbin
Industry committee It's an interesting question. Nortel was bankrupt and sold its intellectual property for $8 million, which makes the point about the value. It's an interesting strategy. I think not everyone has cottoned on to it yet.
May 15th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Ruth Corbin
Industry committee First of all, the data show that business is the weak link in our innovation. That might be surprising. We are praised for our investment in knowledge industries. But business itself is not keeping up with the business productivity of other countries. Why is it not happening? In
May 15th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Ruth Corbin
Industry committee Mr. Regan has said that communicating the bill probably isn't going to happen, because it's boring. You'd think it's boring, the language, so let's find a way to do it. Let's make it in the public conscience. Oversimplyfying, leadership through measurement--a measurement directo
May 15th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Ruth Corbin
Industry committee Let's hope it's more than a hope. You don't want to just have empty chatter here, but a way of talking. Perhaps, again, it can start from government, education, communication programs, and interviews with journalists to get the laws and the knowledge in the minds of all of us, so
May 15th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Ruth Corbin
Industry committee The biggest success story I've heard of came from the lips of Colm Feore, one of our celebrated actors, when he agreed to be interviewed for the report. He believes in the sharing of art, and yet he understands the need to protect the artist's rights. He talked about coming into
May 15th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Ruth Corbin
Industry committee What you're hearing is that we need an IP frame of mind in the country and that the government may be a first step and doesn't need to be thinking about tactical policies. I may sound trite, but it's not trite. In this case, it's to set a vision for the country and to set explici
May 15th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Ruth Corbin
Industry committee I think the debate has raised something that clarifies where the policy options are. Professor de Beer is right when he says a lot of junk gets registered. Until it's registered and defined as intellectual property—trademarks, patents, copyright, trade secrets...well, trade secre
May 15th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Ruth Corbin
Industry committee I wanted to echo Professor de Beer's comments that although you've asked about the courts and enforcement, one of the reasons the courts are so complicated and busy is because of insufficient education. Many of the people I deal with just don't know what their rights are. The ki
May 15th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Ruth Corbin
Industry committee Thank you. Good morning. My name is Ruth Corbin. I run an intellectual property research firm. I teach at Osgoode Hall Law School, in intellectual property. I'm a corporate director—you will see some of my remarks reflecting that background—and trained as a marketer. One of the
May 15th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. Ruth Corbin