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The Roof Decision Most Ottawa Facility Managers Get Wrong: Repair, Replace, or Wait Another Year?

Every commercial roof eventually forces a decision, and it rarely arrives on a convenient timeline. A membrane...

A Growing Ottawa Demands Greater Ambition

Ottawa has extraordinary assets. We are Canada's capital, home to world class research institutions, innovative businesses, a...

Getting into the room: Why access matters in B2B sales

Anyone who has tried to book time with a CEO knows how it goes. You research the...

The Real Cost of Caregiving: Balancing Career and Care

Caregiving for a family member is, for most individuals, an unpaid, secondary career. It can negatively affect...

Why Ontario’s 13% HST Rebate Is Quietly Working Against Ottawa Buyers

Headlines across Ontario have sparked fresh excitement for pre-construction buyers: under Enhanced New Housing Rebate (ENHR) rules,...

AI and your invention: Using generative AI in your inventive process

Inventors are increasingly using generative artificial intelligence (AI), including large language models, and other AI systems, to...

Area X.O Killaloe: Where Defence Innovation Becomes Operational Capability

Strategy documents often talk about partnership between government, industry, and the military. Recently, Area X.O Killaloe had...

Beyond the Algorithm: How to Hire Top Finance and Accounting Talent

Artificial intelligence is changing how businesses operate, and recruitment is no exception. From drafting job descriptions to...

The Print Paradox: What Ottawa’s B2B Marketers Get Wrong About Modern Ad Strategy

If you’ve spent time reviewing marketing line items over the past year, you know the frustration. Digital...

Termination without cause in Ontario: What small businesses get wrong—and how to avoid costly mistakes

For many small and mid-sized businesses in Ontario, terminating an employee without cause feels like a routine...
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Generative AI is a superpower for tech entrepreneurs creating new products. AI can help analyse problems, explore options and define solutions at a pace never before possible. Here’s the question: while AI is an inventor’s best friend, what role does it play in inventing new products from an intellectual property perspective? In this bonus episode of Techopia Live, OBJ publisher Michael Curran speaks with Kushal Shah, a registered Canadian patent agent and lawyer who recently joined Ottawa-based Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP. The discussion explores exactly how much heavy lifting an AI can do before it becomes difficult for a human to legally claim an invention. The conversation provides practical guidance on establishing a paper trail to prove a meaningful human contribution to the final product. Learn how to safely validate AI-generated suggestions and avoid the confidentiality traps of feeding unpatented ideas and proprietary data into generative AI systems in this latest episode. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:25 Introducing Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP 02:09 Introducing Kushal Shah 23:50 OBJ Updates and Closing For more on Ottawa’s tech and innovation scene, visit https://obj.ca/techopia. Subscribe to Techopia’s weekly newsletter here: https://obj121.activehosted.com/f/5
Techopia Live: Can you patent AI inventions? | Episode 301

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