If you are steering a growing Canadian business, your first instinct is likely to look to the United States for sales or across the Pacific for manufacturing. But let’s take a look at what is already functioning right here in our own hemisphere. Under our current trade agreements, North America operates as a single, highly...Read More

The Canadian Commissioner of Patents published a decision rejecting a patent application by an artificial intelligence system and naming the AI as an inventor. Keeping with established practice, the commissioner accepted the advice of members of the Patent Appeal Board that an artificial intelligence system cannot be named as an “inventor”. The applicant, Stephen L....Read More

We recently posted about how trade secrets are not cheap or easy IP protection. The current situation in the technology industry reminds us of another issue with depending on trade secrets – what happens when employees leave. Your patent portfolio is more robust than your trade secrets during downsizing and all employee departures.Read More