Another study – this one useful!

On May 15, 2012, in Innovation, Intellectual property, Valuing IP, by Miltons IP

a>If there is one behaviour that has traditionally defined Canada’s approach to difficult issues, it is the knee-jerk desire to ‘launch another study’. Nowhere is this habit more ingrained than when bemoaning Canada’s lack of success commercializing innovation. Here is another study, released in November 2011 by an organization I had never heard of, the [...]

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Patent prosecution highways – the road ahead

On December 11, 2011, in Intellectual property, Patents, PPH - The Patent Prosecution Highway, by Miltons IP

Patent prosecution highway agreements (“PPH”) appear to be all the rage, and the reasons that patent offices like them are obvious (discussed more fully in a separate post). However, PPH agreements represent an enormous change to patent prosecution that will have profound consequences for patentees, licensees and infringers, patent agents/attorneys, and national patent offices. Some [...]

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RIM – BBX trademark fiasco

On December 11, 2011, in Stories, Trademarks, by Miltons IP

The recent RIM BBX trademark fiasco has all the appearances of being a ‘what were they thinking?’ and “don’t they know the basics of trademark law?” sort of moment. On December 6, 2011 Research in Motion (RIM) was temporarily enjoined by US Federal District Court, in Alburqurque, New Mexico from using BBX as the name of their [...]

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Innovation and government policy

On December 1, 2011, in Innovation, Intellectual property, by Miltons IP

A post in yesterday’s Economy Lab blog of the Globe and Mail asks the very pertinent question Is ‘innovation’ another name for corporate handout?  Wasteful handouts are a frequent result of pressure for ‘an innovation strategy from government’  but this does not need to be the case.  The key problem is that ‘innovation’ is a sexy [...]

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Canada Competes – but do as I say, not as I do

On November 30, 2011, in Innovation, Intellectual property, by Miltons IP

The Globe & Mail has been running an interesting and useful series on the Canadian economy called Canada Competes on the theme of competitiveness and thus with articles on themes such as innovation, productivity, and trade. However, this week there is yet another article from employees of one of Canada’s largest companies in which the employees [...]

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