Industry committee  Yes, I think supporting the tech transfer offices is very important. We have to be careful to realize that we can transfer the technology very well, but we have to make sure we are transferring it to Canadian companies that are going to be able to benefit and exploit this techn

Industry committee  Well, I'd like to have it both ways—

Industry committee  You can have the royalties from the Chinese company and also have a licence for Canadian companies to have the freedom to operate under that patent: two licences, one for just freedom to operate and the other one for the Chinese company to—

Industry committee  Yes, exactly. That's the collective concept that we've put forward, so in part.

Industry committee  Well, you're saying one thing. I'm going to say four quick things. IP education is the beginning. We need to at least know what we don't know. The second level is IP generation. We need to capture more IP. I guess I'll cut it off at three. The third thing we need to do is gener

Industry committee  To the first question, there was an organization that existed from the 1930s until 1992 in Canada, called Canadian Patent Development Limited. There's one paper on it, if you want to see a coordinated approach on what happened to it. It was axed in the early 1990s. I'll give yo

Industry committee  You can see this as a great IP strategy for foreign tech firms. The idea is that you can buy off most of the research by getting one researcher in a key technology area and having them report back to the mother ship with all of the research that the institute is doing. They bring

Industry committee  As I was commenting, many of the issues we're running into are international. We're dealing in international markets, so the legal mechanisms and the levers of the Canadian patent system are probably not going to do a lot. We have to think of other mechanisms that we can put into

Industry committee  This is basic IP strategy 101. You have to know what you're going into, what you own and what you don't own, who your competitors are, what you want to see, and what your objectives are. When we do this for companies, we do an IP map for the country. You can map out to see what w

Industry committee  Yes, some of those numbers are public, so we can pull those together, but the actual government-invested IP, this IP map of what universities have bought or invested in, is a good research—

Industry committee  Not from what I understand, no, and I was asking about that.

Industry committee  Thank you for that comment. Actually, before I got into law, I worked for heavy truck manufacturing in Woodstock, Ontario. We made parts for heavy trucks, for International Truck and Engine, in Chatham, which is no longer there, and Stirling, in St. Thomas, where the same sort of

Industry committee  There has been a lot of study on the clean tech space. Our focus has been on clean tech and AI, and there are a lot of opportunities, but in the clean tech spaces you're talking about, there are a lot of regulatory issues that you have to build into your IP strategy. Getting the

Industry committee  There are very few countries that have an IP trade surplus. The U.S. is one example. Japan is another example. A lot of other countries are struggling with this problem. France, Japan, and Korea are a few examples that I've researched. There are different ways of trying to balanc

Industry committee  Good morning. Thank you, Chair and esteemed members of the committee, for the privilege of appearing as a witness before you. I'm an IP lawyer and patent and trademark agent with Bereskin & Parr, and an assistant professor at Western University. I also advise the executive