Techopia

Techopia is focused on Ottawa’s technology sector. This multimedia project includes regular online news coverage, a video and audio podcast, private networking events and quarterly reports. OBJ also partners with EY to create an annual magazine called Techopia-EY Insights.

Will legal marijuana be one of history’s most disruptive technologies?

The market potential for legalized marijuana is enormous.  One market in particular that could be significantly impacted...

HostedBizz’s acquisition of ITUtility.Net helps Ottawa firm expand beyond the capital

One of Ottawa’s fastest-growing companies has acquired a Toronto firm in a bid to expand its cloud-based...

Shopify absorbs Toronto-based app studio in third acquisition of the year

Shopify Inc. (TSX:SHOP) (NYSE:SHOP) isn’t slowing down as it approaches the holidays, announcing today that it has...

Feature: How to pitch an angel

If you’re looking for funding, sometimes your best shot is an angel. But more often than not, your...

Ottawa medical software firm Cliniconex readies for expansion

With health-care spending eating up nearly half of the provincial government’s annual budget, an Ottawa company says...

Ottawa-based Intouch buys RetailTrack

Intouch Insight  (CVE:INX), which provides mobile-based market research and analytics for enterprise clients, says it’s has acquired another...

Feature: Shopify, Carleton partnership hopes to create ‘exceptionally career-ready’ students

In September, Shopify announced a partnership with Carleton University to put their students to work. For the past...

Ottawa-based Magor plans bankruptcy filing

Attempts to keep a troubled business alive hit a snag this week as Magor Corp. (TSX-V:MCC), backed...

Virtual reality moves into Ottawa’s real estate market

Local company Umber Realty is experimenting with new technology by giving buyers and sellers the option of...

Ottawa’s SaaS North conference puts spotlight on ‘exploding’ business model

This week, Ottawa hosts the inaugural SaaS North conference, featuring hundreds of key players in Canada’s software-as-a-service industry. The...
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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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