Raja Technologies Inc.

The new #CUSMA / #USMCA came into effect on July 1, 2020. #Canada changed its #tradesecret laws to make trade secret misappropriation and theft #criminal offences. This makes it even more important to identify and track your trade secrets, so that you can manage and protect your trade secrets better. In Part 3 of our 3-part blog series on trade secrets, we explain how to identify and track your trade secrets via #IPmining and discovery. As #PeterDrucker said, What gets measu...red gets managed. To measure and manage something, it needs to be identified and tracked. The same goes for #tradesecrets, i.e. to manage trade secrets, they need to be identified and tracked. Have you identified and tracked your #tradesecrets? Are you carrying out #IPmining and discovery on a regular basis? http://rajatechip.blogspot.com//strengthening-trade-secret

Immigrant business owners are 8.6 per cent more likely to innovate a new product, and 20.1 per cent more likely to innovate on production processes or methods. They were also more likely to find new ways of marketing. Organizational innovation was relatively the same for businesses owned by immigrants and Canadian-born individuals https://www-cicnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org//candian-bu/amp

Dear all, Raja Technologies Inc. is looking to better understand the intellectual property (IP) needs of startups and SMEs, so as to better assist startups and SMEs in the future. Please fill out the survey below, it won't take more than 5 minutes. https://forms.gle/jTLC1SQZrq4NDR169... Thank you for your time Ramesh Rajaduray, CEO of Raja Technologies Inc. #intellectualpropertyrights #intellectualproperty #ip #patents #trademarks #tradesecrets #copyright

Canada has strengthened its #tradesecret protection regime! Trade secret misappropriation will become a #criminal offence under the new laws. Are you adequately prepared to take advantage of this? Find out how you can take action in Part 2 of our three-part series from our CEO Ramesh Rajaduray #ip http://rajatechip.blogspot.com//strengthening-trade-secret

Canada has strengthened trade secret protection! Are you taking advantage of this strengthened protection? Find out how you can take action in Part 1 of our three-part series from our CEO Ramesh Rajaduray #ip #tradesecrets http://rajatechip.blogspot.com//strengthening-trade-secret

"Providing female farmers with equal access to resources could reduce the number of people living with chronic hunger by as much as 17%, providing help and hope... to as many as 150 million people around the world." ~ Canada's Feminist International Assistance Policy At Dunya, we're looking to provide integrated, market-oriented and farmer-driven systems that not only enables a smarter harvest but links productivity to sustainability. #farming #sustainability

Earth Day is a little different this year, at Dunya we are mindful of our impact upon it. We understand that there is interchangeable links between "sustainabl...e agriculture, food security, water scarcity and climate change." With that in mind, our aim is to provide measurable and sustainable solutions to help farmers mitigate and adapt to conditions where changing climate and water scarcity are affecting crop productivity and food security. Dunya which translates to "earth" is defined by its unique approach to help empower change and ensure food security globally. The transformational change of being able to produce enough food to sustain our increasing population by working hand in hand with our farmer s and communities to grow food locally anywhere and in any condition this is what Dunya means to us. #earthday #climatechange #sustainability #foodsecurity #foodsystems #agriculture #farming #innovation

Please take a moment to fill out our SURVEY! For consumers: https://bit.ly/3aMcbJi For farmers & distributors: https://bit.ly/35hoxaZ... The effects of COVID-19 as it ripples through our food systems are still unclear. But at Dunya we want to hear from you, as we look to provide sustainable farming solutions. Thank you in advance from our team!

On Mar 13, 2020 Bill C-4 on CUSMA (Canada-US-Mexico trade Agreement) received Royal Assent. Trade secret theft and misappropriation are now criminal offences under proposed section 391 of the Criminal Code. https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/BillDetails.aspx "Trade secret... 391 (1) Everyone commits an offence who, by deceit, falsehood or other fraudulent means, knowingly obtains a trade secret or communicates or makes available a trade secret. Trade secret prior knowledge (2) Everyone commits an offence who knowingly obtains a trade secret or communicates or makes available a trade secret knowing that it was obtained by the commission of an offence under subsection (1). Punishment (3) Everyone who commits an offence referred to in subsection (1) or (2) is guilty (a) of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years; or (b) of an offence punishable on summary conviction." A trade secret is defined as: "any information that (a) is not generally known in the trade or business that uses or may use that information; (b) has economic value from not being generally known; and (c) is the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy." #Tradesecrets are a vital part of your #IP. Are you #protecting them?

In these difficult times, we face a lot of uncertainty in our businesses and startups. Our CEO Ramesh Rajaduray talks about adapting your IP strategy to deal with the impact of COVID-19. In this blog post he talks about various ways to defer IP expenses into the future: https://rajatechip.blogspot.com//ip-strategy-during-covid-

On March 23rd the Premier of Ontario ordered the mandatory closure of all non-essential workplaces. This order will take effect on Tuesday, March 24th at 11:59 p.m. The government of Ontario has stated that: teleworking and online commerce are permitted at all times for all businesses.... In a statement released today Raja Technologies Inc. CEO Ramesh Rajaduray said, Raja Technologies Inc. is fully equipped for teleworking and will remain open during this period to support clients, individuals and businesses both here in Ontario as well as worldwide. On behalf of Raja Technologies Inc., I would like to extend a message to everyone to stay safe, practice social distancing and to stay at home as much as possible so as to avoid spreading COVID-19. Raja Technologies Inc. also wishes to extend a message of support to all essential services personnel who are working to keep businesses open to enable the rest of us to live. Raja Technologies Inc. also extends a message of deep gratitude and support to medical personnel and researchers who are saving lives, curing illness and finding methods to halt and ultimately defeat this disease.

Raja Technologies Inc. successfully obtained US Patent 10,564,215 on its Probabilyze semiconductor characterization technology. Specifically, US Patent 10,564,215 concerns the use of Probabilyze in an integrated testing process. The Probabilyze technology grew out of Raja Technologies Inc. CEO Ramesh Rajaduray's undergraduate honours project. Raja Technologies Inc. currently holds US Patents 10,352,989 and 9,002,677 which concern the same technology. More information at:... https://www.rajatechnologies.com/copy-of-raja-tech-probabil

It might be a new year and new decade, but sometimes old wisdom is the best. An example: Put yourself in someone else's shoes. Our CEO Ramesh Rajaduray explains how putting yourself in someone else's shoes can help realize benefits from patents: #patents #ipstrategy #value #acquisition More details can be found in this link: http://rajatechip.blogspot.com//put-yourself-in-someone-el... Key points: C-level executives often don't bother with patents due to the cost of obtaining and enforcement. However by putting themselves in the shoes of a potential acquirer, they could get a different perspective: A good patent portfolio increases the company's attractiveness and value as an acquisition target or as a partner. The added value is likely to be many multiples of the cost of obtaining and managing the portfolio. Examples: 1) Acquisition of LiveQoS by Adaptiv in December 2019 2) Acquisition of Mindmeld by Cisco in 2017 Additionally, increased attractiveness as an acquisition target makes it easier to entice investors and large companies with deep pockets, especially in patent-litigious fields. Therefore, putting yourself in someone else's shoes with regards to patents could benefit you greatly!

We are in a new decade but some challenges never go away! Hiring employees poses IP challenges. In the past, Raja Technologies Inc. and Innovate LLP advised companies on dealing with IP issues in hiring employees. Link to article here: https://innovatellp.com//intellectual-property-ip-issues/... Key points: 1) IP flight risk, i.e. the risk of losing valuable IP, increases if IP is not properly identified and ownership not secured. 2) Proactively including relevant/useful IP clauses into employment agreements greatly reduces IP flight risk. 3) Using appropriate clauses in employment agreements puts onus on employee to disclose inventions and/or participate in IP discovery/mining to uncover new inventions. 4) Employer ownership of inventions should be secured via express language clauses in employment agreement. If patents are sought, employees should be required to execute assignment document(s) to further strengthen employer ownership, enforcement and prosecution rights. 5) For copyrights, appropriate clauses should be included in employment agreements so that employees assign all copyrights to employers, and waive moral rights. Furthermore, there should be clauses to permit the employer to register and enforce copyrights.