Industry committee  I think having a patent defence fund would be very useful as a deterrent perhaps. I think it would very challenging to decide who you would and wouldn't support and who you would defend and who you wouldn't. You'd have to figure out the merits of the case. I think the money would

Industry committee  I believe the funding doesn't come from industry. As far as I understand, it's 65% from ACOA and a membership kind of fee. Chris would be able to answer that more.

Industry committee  They do a bit of both. Some of the positions sit in the institution, and they try to work with the faculty. But there's an industry liaison role whereby they actually go out and travel around and try to find companies to speak to companies. They're very useful and there are very

Industry committee  My understanding is that while they do some education, they will do some workshops. They will help put people together. Because the people are actually embedded in institutions and are actually employed by the institution, they have to follow their contract rules and their HR rul

Industry committee  Okay. To wrap it up, I was going to say that the other thing I would like to talk about is how important education for IP is. I think CIPO should be doing a much better job of that. They in fact are getting cut with regard to their funding in Atlantic Canada, and we need more peo

Industry committee  Thank you for the invitation and the opportunity to present to the committee. I've been following the testimony, and throughout my statement, I will refer back to remarks made in previous testimony. My perspective on this issue of intellectual property and technology transfer co