The document summarizes an event hosted by Silicon Halton discussing intellectual property for information technology. It provides an agenda that includes a welcome, announcements, a keynote on IP from Matthew Graff of Bereskin & Parr LLP, and time for networking. The keynote discusses different types of IP including patents, trademarks, copyright, and industrial designs. It covers considerations for selecting inventions to patent such as commercial factors and patentability requirements.
This session is a case study of Earley & Associates, an information management consulting firm, which was looking to improve access and reusability of its extensive content libraries.
With the directive from the top to ‘eat our own cooking’ the E&A consulting team turns its focus inward to build a best in class content management system. This system would support the company’s desire to leverage the knowledge and experience of its team members in order to maximize its effectiveness in every department from sales and marketing through delivery.
In this session, you get an insider perspective on the good, bad, and the ugly as the company worked through the process – from taking inventory to rebuilding the taxonomy. David talks about the choices that needed to be made and why, the things that worked, and the things that could have been better.
This session is a case study of Earley & Associates, an information management consulting firm, which was looking to improve access and reusability of its extensive content libraries.
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In this session, you get an insider perspective on the good, bad, and the ugly as the company worked through the process – from taking inventory to rebuilding the taxonomy. David talks about the choices that needed to be made and why, the things that worked, and the things that could have been better.
Silicon Halton - Meetup #56 - Tech Under 20Silicon Halton
The next generation of tech gurus is growing up in our backyards, skinning it's knees in local playgrounds and attending Halton high schools. They interact with the globe over parent-financed broadband as they dream up ways to solve the world's problems, compete in mind-stretching, world-class technology competitions and learn more in an hour online that we were able to extract during years of searching through dusty library catacombs.
Halton teens are learning fast, stretching boundaries, and developing ideas into fledgling new businesses that will help create new opportunities in the region ... and keep more of our budding geniuses close to home.
On June 10th, at Milton Education Village, Silicon Halton held it's first ever Tech Under 20 meetup with five high school Tech Stars - speaking about their vision, their ideas, their thinking processes, and their innovations!
Meetup 57 on July 8, 2014 at The Marquee at Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario, Canada. Presented on The Accessibility for Ontarians With Disabilities Act (AODA).
The Benefits Of Website Accessibility
1. Increased market share
2. Findability and SEO
3. Better public image
Some of the content includes:
- who is accessibility for (not just the physically handicapped)
- Web accessibility requirements and penalties
- business case for Web accessibility
- intuitive and accessible structure
- writing for accessibility
- how accessibility, good usability and SEO tie in
- design elements to be aware of (font sizes, colours, links)
www.siliconhalton.com
twitter.com/siliconhalton
Silicon Halton Meetup 75: Augmented Reality, A PrimerSilicon Halton
Learn About the AR Market and Meet Local AR Experts
In this meetup you’ll learn about the AR market opportunity (hint: it’s bigger than VR), the industries that are adopting it and specific applications of AR today and potentially in the future.
You’ll also meet two local leaders in the AR field who will share their experiences, knowledge and point of view about the AR industry and where it’s heading. They’ll also cover and demonstrate some of the cool products and projects they’re working on today.
Silicon Halton Meetup 79 - Chart of AccountsSilicon Halton
Presentation by SB Partners LLP (www.sbpartners.ca) on the importance for Tech Solopreneurs and Entrepreneurs to setup a proper Chart of Accounts. We learned:
- Why understanding what a chart of accounts is – is a big deal
- The right chart of accounts for technology companies
- How setting up your accounting systems properly will pay off in the long run
- Some of the sexy saas accounting software that’s out there for smaller tech companies
- When to stop doing it by yourself and hire outside help
www.siliconhalton.com
twitter.com/siliconhalton
Silicon Halton Meetup #47 - Your First CRMSilicon Halton
Meetup 47 on Sept 10, 2013 on Selecting your First CRM.
Held at a new co-working space in Burlington: burlingtonhive.com
www.siliconhalton.com
twitter.com/siliconhalton
Silicon Halton Meetup #44 - Special Presentation By The Weather NetworkSilicon Halton
The Weather Network | Pelmorex Media Inc. provides weather information to millions of Canadians each day across it’s media properties - television (15 million monthly viewers), online (8 million monthly unique users), mobile and tablet apps (8 million monthly users). They are also one of the largest information technology companies in Halton region – employing over 450 people. Their goal is to be the best weather and weather-related content and information provider in Canada. They are committed to delivering weather information to consumers 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, across all platforms
Carrie Lysenko, Director Web Services, Moe Abeidat, Director Software Development, and Matt Mejaski, Software Development Manager, shared their story about the evolution of their strategy from television to interactive websites and apps. They discussed the website’s history, it’s challenges, why and how they recently re-launched their website, and what they see for the Weather Network’s future. It’s a great made in Canada technology story.
Slide deck from the Silicon Halton Meetup #54: New Tech.
Four Oakville companies wow'd the audience by showcasing their new Made-in-Oakville technology.
Learn more about Silicon Halton here
www.siliconhalton.com
Twitter.com/siliconhalton
LinkedIn group: http://linkd.in/hy8VpW
LinkedIn company page: http://bit.ly/siliconhalton
Deck designed and delivered by Ian Bell from the Canadian Intellectual Property Office during his session at the Vancouver Innovation Labs (May 24th, 2016)
Presented by James Longwell, Partner
The information in this presentation is for general information purposes only. It does not constitute a legal opinion or other professional advice.
Your SR&ED and Intellectual Property PrimerBoast Capital
IP ownership is an important topic that comes up frequently when companies claim SR&ED. During this webinar, Boast Capital asked PCK to share more info about getting into the patent system, IP protection and how it impacts companies.
Silicon Halton - Meetup #56 - Tech Under 20Silicon Halton
The next generation of tech gurus is growing up in our backyards, skinning it's knees in local playgrounds and attending Halton high schools. They interact with the globe over parent-financed broadband as they dream up ways to solve the world's problems, compete in mind-stretching, world-class technology competitions and learn more in an hour online that we were able to extract during years of searching through dusty library catacombs.
Halton teens are learning fast, stretching boundaries, and developing ideas into fledgling new businesses that will help create new opportunities in the region ... and keep more of our budding geniuses close to home.
On June 10th, at Milton Education Village, Silicon Halton held it's first ever Tech Under 20 meetup with five high school Tech Stars - speaking about their vision, their ideas, their thinking processes, and their innovations!
Meetup 57 on July 8, 2014 at The Marquee at Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario, Canada. Presented on The Accessibility for Ontarians With Disabilities Act (AODA).
The Benefits Of Website Accessibility
1. Increased market share
2. Findability and SEO
3. Better public image
Some of the content includes:
- who is accessibility for (not just the physically handicapped)
- Web accessibility requirements and penalties
- business case for Web accessibility
- intuitive and accessible structure
- writing for accessibility
- how accessibility, good usability and SEO tie in
- design elements to be aware of (font sizes, colours, links)
www.siliconhalton.com
twitter.com/siliconhalton
Silicon Halton Meetup 75: Augmented Reality, A PrimerSilicon Halton
Learn About the AR Market and Meet Local AR Experts
In this meetup you’ll learn about the AR market opportunity (hint: it’s bigger than VR), the industries that are adopting it and specific applications of AR today and potentially in the future.
You’ll also meet two local leaders in the AR field who will share their experiences, knowledge and point of view about the AR industry and where it’s heading. They’ll also cover and demonstrate some of the cool products and projects they’re working on today.
Silicon Halton Meetup 79 - Chart of AccountsSilicon Halton
Presentation by SB Partners LLP (www.sbpartners.ca) on the importance for Tech Solopreneurs and Entrepreneurs to setup a proper Chart of Accounts. We learned:
- Why understanding what a chart of accounts is – is a big deal
- The right chart of accounts for technology companies
- How setting up your accounting systems properly will pay off in the long run
- Some of the sexy saas accounting software that’s out there for smaller tech companies
- When to stop doing it by yourself and hire outside help
www.siliconhalton.com
twitter.com/siliconhalton
Silicon Halton Meetup #47 - Your First CRMSilicon Halton
Meetup 47 on Sept 10, 2013 on Selecting your First CRM.
Held at a new co-working space in Burlington: burlingtonhive.com
www.siliconhalton.com
twitter.com/siliconhalton
Silicon Halton Meetup #44 - Special Presentation By The Weather NetworkSilicon Halton
The Weather Network | Pelmorex Media Inc. provides weather information to millions of Canadians each day across it’s media properties - television (15 million monthly viewers), online (8 million monthly unique users), mobile and tablet apps (8 million monthly users). They are also one of the largest information technology companies in Halton region – employing over 450 people. Their goal is to be the best weather and weather-related content and information provider in Canada. They are committed to delivering weather information to consumers 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, across all platforms
Carrie Lysenko, Director Web Services, Moe Abeidat, Director Software Development, and Matt Mejaski, Software Development Manager, shared their story about the evolution of their strategy from television to interactive websites and apps. They discussed the website’s history, it’s challenges, why and how they recently re-launched their website, and what they see for the Weather Network’s future. It’s a great made in Canada technology story.
Slide deck from the Silicon Halton Meetup #54: New Tech.
Four Oakville companies wow'd the audience by showcasing their new Made-in-Oakville technology.
Learn more about Silicon Halton here
www.siliconhalton.com
Twitter.com/siliconhalton
LinkedIn group: http://linkd.in/hy8VpW
LinkedIn company page: http://bit.ly/siliconhalton
Deck designed and delivered by Ian Bell from the Canadian Intellectual Property Office during his session at the Vancouver Innovation Labs (May 24th, 2016)
Presented by James Longwell, Partner
The information in this presentation is for general information purposes only. It does not constitute a legal opinion or other professional advice.
Your SR&ED and Intellectual Property PrimerBoast Capital
IP ownership is an important topic that comes up frequently when companies claim SR&ED. During this webinar, Boast Capital asked PCK to share more info about getting into the patent system, IP protection and how it impacts companies.
On October 3, 2018, John Cabeca, West Coast Director of the Silicon Valley USPTO presented at CRASHSpace on Intellectual Property topics in relation to business strategy.
Software has tremendous commercial potential that’s growing every day. So when you work in a federal lab, you need to know how to harness it! Our webinar will help you figure out how to make this underestimated intellectual property (IP) part of your T2 strategy.
This webinar will help you understand the basics of software protection and commercialization, and how they can fit into your T2 program, including:
Methods of protecting software
GOGO and GOCO processes and their differences
Various software distribution models and their merits.
Our panel features three T2 experts in thinking out–of–the–box, who have made software work for them—Barry Datlof, Army Medical Research and Materiel Command; Kathleen McDonald, Los Alamos National Laboratory; and Aaron Sauers, Fermilab.
The panelists will also use participants’ input and feedback to hone the “Software Topics” session they’re presenting at this year’s national meeting—tailoring it to your needs.
AI-SDV 2021 - Tony Trippe - The Current State of Machine Learning for Patent ...Dr. Haxel Consult
The use of machine learning in IP activities has increased exponentially over the past five years. At the same time new tools, methods and systems have begun to emerge that seek to make the analysis of patent data easier to accomplish using these techniques. Included in these new developments are a significant number of machine learning systems that have begun coming to market. As these changes continue to occur, it would be useful to review some of the tools, systems, or methods that a patent practitioner has at their disposal. Examples and perspectives on the latest advances in machine learning for IP will be provided. There will also be a tour of ML4Patents.com which is devoted to aggregating content associated with the development of this area.
Prenuptial Patenting: Responsible Engagement with Engineering FirmsAurora Consulting
You have your big idea and now it’s time to breathe it into existence, but you need some help with the development. Like many others, you may turn to the aid of an engineering firm or dev shop. This relationship is a marriage of sorts. But it’s a marriage that is designed to inevitably end in divorce. How cleanly, smoothly, and successfully this separation goes depends on the steps that you take before it officially begins.
Dr. Ashley Sloat, President and Director of Patent Strategy at Aurora, leads a discussion into Responsible Engagement with Engineering Firms, or what we affectionately refer to here as “Prenuptial Patenting”. Ashley and our all star patent panel walk you down the aisle and explore everything you need to know to experience marital bliss and an amicable divorce with your engineering partners. This talk covers the full life cycle from vetting partners to post development concerns and everything in between – with particular focus on relationship complexities like IP ownership, assignment from engineering firm inventors back to you, and how to avoid the traps of viral IP.
Blog post: https://www.aurorapatents.com/blog/prenuptial-patenting
Podcast Episode: https://patentlystrategic.buzzsprout.com
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Silicon Halton
Meetup #68: IP for IT
Matthew Graff
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Intellectual property
• Basic nature of IP rights
– Rights of exclusion
– Rights granted to the originator (but transferable)
• Policy rationale
– Economic incentive to encourage the creation of intangible
goods
– Protection – consumers, authors, inventors
– Entitlement – idea that a person who creates intangible goods is
entitled to control the results of their work and profit from it
15. 15
Types of IP
• Technology-related IP
– Patents
– Industrial Designs
– Trade Secrets
• Branding-related IP
– Trademarks
– Domain names
• Works of Composition IP
– Copyright
18. 18
Trademarks
• A mark that distinguishes the goods or services of one trader from
the goods or services of other traders
• Can be a word, symbol, design, or a combination of elements
• Pick a ‘clean’ mark
• Registration optional, but provides advantages
• Big changes on the horizon for Canada
– File applications now
19. 19
Copyright
• Protects fixed expression of an original work
– No protection of mere ideas
• Stop others from reproducing the work or a substantial part thereof
• Can provide protection for:
– software
– database structure (selection and arrangement of data)
– website structure, layout and content
– user guides / instructions
– print and video advertising, jingles, theme music
• In most countries, right arises automatically upon creation of the
work
• Term is life + 50 years (generally)
20. 20
Industrial designs
• Industrial designs (Canada) versus design patents (U.S.)
• Features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornamentation in a
finished article, that appeal to and are judged solely by the eye
• Dog coats and computer icons, GUI arrangements
• Apple v. Samsung
21. 21
Patents
• Protects new, inventive and useful products and technologies
• Limited time monopoly in exchange for public disclosure
• Powerful rights that cannot be defeated by ignorance of patent or
independent invention
• Patents are national rights, and in most countries the application is
examined
22. 22
A patent is not…
• A right to make the thing patented
– Patents confer “negative rights”, meaning patent owners are still
subject to the rights of owners of existing patents
– If you obtain a patent for an improvement on an existing
invention, you must obtain a license to use the existing invention
• Invulnerable
– Patents are always open to challenges of invalidity
• Fully effective without enforcement
– Patent holder must be willing to pay costs of enforcing patents
23. 23
Patent advantages
• Offensive
– Stop others from using your inventions
– Licensing
• Defensive
– Cross-licensing
• Marketing
– Patent as an asset
– Business optics
– Investor confidence
– Consumer confidence
24. 24
Patent realities
• Costs
• Time commitment
• Delay
• Must have an invention
• Enforcement
• Validity challenges
• Issues with software patents
25. 25
What?
• Selecting inventions to patent
– Is it core technology?
– Popularity/competitive advantage of technology
– Lifecycle of technology
– Barriers to entry for competitors
– Ability to detect infringement
• Commercial versus technical considerations
– Patentability requirements
• Improvements
26. 26
When?
• Where do I want protection?
– 1 year grace period in Canada, U.S. and very limited number of
other countries
• Europe/Asia
– Requires inventions to have never been disclosed before filing
– “Absolute novelty”
27. 27
Where?
• U.S. and Canada
• Places where you or your competitors do business
• Offshore manufacturing
• Must be practical
– Filing broadly is costly
– International application (PCT) if 3 or more countries
28. 28
Software patents
• Subject matter eligibility
– law of nature, natural phenomenon, abstract ideas
• What is and isn’t “abstract”?
– performance of business practice known from the pre-Internet
world along with the requirement to perform it on the Internet
(Bilski; Alice)
– process for data compression
• Despite uncertainty, big software companies are amassing large
patent portfolios
29. 29
Living with other’s patents
• Manage risk of infringement for new products
• Patent litigation is extremely costly
• “Freedom to operate”
• Exhaustive searching is not feasible
• 18 month secrecy window
• Deal with problems as they arise
30. 30
Ownership
• Incorporate
• Get it in writing before the IP is created
– Consultancy arrangements
• Joint development of improvements
• Exclusivity, residual knowledge
– Employment
• Ownership transferred by paper assignment or employee
contract
• Require all employees to enter into IP ownership and confidentiality
agreements
– Agreements signed as a condition of employment on initial hiring
– Ensure that engineers and researchers keep careful records of their
work
31. Bereskin & Parr LLP
Matthew Graff | Partner
905-817-6107
mgraff@bereskinparr.com
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