Canada’s intellectual property strategy must play to the country’s strengths; The Globe and Mail, August 4, 2017

Dan Breznitz and Mark Fox, The Globe and Mail; Canada’s intellectual property strategy must play to the country’s strengths

"In the last 40 years, Canada has been acting as the open-source laboratory of the world – we funded and conducted the research, that is the prior art – and foreigners gladly patented it, gaining the property rights and profits. Nowhere is this disturbing phenomena clearer then in Artificial Intelligence. It is high time that Canada defend the openness of our open science and, at the same time, achieve all three of our national IP strategy goals: 1) generate and own more, and higher quality, patents; 2) defend and expand the freedom to operate for current and future Canadian entrepreneurs and companies; 3) educate Canadians to become the world's savviest users and producers of IPR."