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Final Report
Leveraging Knowledge Assets
Table of Contents Letter of Transmittal
Preface
Acknowledgments
Executive Summary
1. Introduction 1.1 Purpose of This Report 1.2 Interested Constituencies 1.3 Terminology: “Federal” and “Provincial” Intellectual Property Rights 1.4 Overview of the Report 1.5 Constitutional Considerations
2. Inherent Valuation Challenges 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Possible Responses to Valuation Challenges 2.3 Summary
3. Uncertainties in the Current Federal Registration and Priority Framework 3.1 Sources of Uncertainty 3.2 Reducing Uncertainty 3.3 Summary
4. Reform of the Ownership Disclosure Function of the Federal Intellectual Property Registries 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Are Conclusive Legal Title Registries Needed for Federal IPRs? 4.3 Substantive Registry Reform: Strict First-to-register Priority 4.4 Scope of Federally Registrable “Assignments”: Substance over Form 4.5 Need for Complementary Structural and Operational Registry Reform
5. Choice of Law Approach 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Mode of Implementation 5.3 Overview of Advantages and Disadvantages 5.4 The Coordination Challenge 5.5 Possible Structural Solutions to the Coordination Challenges 5.6 Irreducible Coordination Challenges in the Case of Foreign Debtors 5.7 Questionable International Status of a Debtor Location Choice of Law Rule for Security in IPRs 5.8 Summary
6. Federal Substantive Approach 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Scope of Collateral 6.3 Priorities 6.4 Summary
7. Structural and Operational Reforms of the Federal Intellectual Property Registries to Accommodate the Federal Approach 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Notice-registration versus Document-filing 7.3 Integrated or Separate Federal Security and Ownership Registries 7.4 After-acquired IPRs and Asset-based Registration and Searching 7.5 Summary
8. Implementation Strategy
9. Conclusion
List of Recommendations
Bibliography
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