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Maple Leaf Foods :As if your project scope was not broad enough, another client Maple Leaf Foods has hired your team to help it understand the state of competition in the prepared food industry. Maple Leaf Foods would like you to help them with a number of tasks. They are interested in knowing more about how they can protect their intellectual property. Specifically they would like your team help them understand their options in regards to patent strategy.

Suggested Reading:

· Deepak Sumaya and David Teece (2012) Business Model and Patent Strategies in Multi Invention Contexts Ivey Business Journal http://iveybusinessjournal.com/topics/innovation/business-models-and-patent-strategies-in-multi-invention-contexts#.VAeummOwWSo

Comment on Patents:

Just as the Library of Congress has its own classification scheme for organizing library holding so too are patents classified in an organized manner. Increasingly the world’s national patent systems are harmonizing how they manage and organize patents. Two classification systems gaining dominance are the International Patent Classification, IPC and the

· A guide to the IPC Patent Classification may be access using this link. http://web.archive.org/web/20071014011734/http://www.wipo.int/classifications/ipc/en/other/guide/guide_ipc8.pdf

· A link to the actual IPC classification is as follows. http://www.wipo.int/classifications/ipc/en/ITsupport/Version20150101/transformations/viewer/index.htm

· A guide to the CPC classification can be accessed using this link. http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/classification/cpc.html

· Increasingly patent experts are using Google patent search to access information on patents in many countries. Here is a link to this search tool. https://www.google.com/patents/

· A brief text tutorial focused on patent searching may be access using the following link. http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2015/07/11/patent-searching-101-a-patent-search-tutorial 2/id=59308/ (Tutorial)

· A second important means for accessing information about international patents is the search tool of the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO). http://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/

· Short video tutorials for using the WIPO patent search tool may be accessed using this link. https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/tutorial.jsf (Tutorial)

· Finally, another interesting way to access patents if you know who the inventor is, http://patentgenius.com. You can search by inventor, assignee/owner and category.

· https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/lsg-pdsv.nsf/eng/hn01763.html