Discussion following the Remarks of Mr. Phillips and Ms. Erickson
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Yeah, I had a question on intellectual property.Isn't it true that U.S. intellectual property protection is broader than Canada's?In other words, aren't there differences in the scope of intellectual property protection in this area, which involves living things frequently?I think that makes a difference, doesn't it?MR.PHILILPS: Yeah.I mean, the intellectual property system is fairly complex.I mean, it is not just patents and plant breeders' rights, but we have somewhat different sets of structures in both countries, and then different again from the international system or other countries.In Canada, we have very similar definitions of what's patentable, except that we haven't gone as far along as allowing patents on multi cellulared organisms.We've gone up to and including patenting of singular cellulared organisms.With the Harvard Mouse case that went through the Supreme Court last year, the judgment was that the Patent Act was never intended to deal with multi cellular organisms.Now, we've got a reference on the Schmeiser case, which relates toreally doesn't relate to patenting at all, or the patenting of higher life forms, but it's been construed in the Supreme Court appeal as relating to patenting of higher life forms.And in that case, they want to bring the bar back from ameiosis closer to the single cellulared organisms, because there's gray area there.We know ameiosis isn't allowed under the decision, but a single celled organism is.So where's the line?Is it single celled or is it multi celled, not sentient?You know, that is the debate that is going on.The effect of that could be very large or very small.Practically speaking, it is not that big a deal for the products that are in the markets today in the agri-food world, because there are other protection mechanisms.You can use contracts; you can use a whole variety of ways of stopping people from reproducing your technology.But in the long run, if you can't get patents that are clear and succinct, the industry says that they will be less interested in investing money in research that only has application in Canada.So we may get me, too, research, but we won't get research into products that are critically important to Canada more than the United States.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".