1. DECEMBER 10th

2. Course assessment Assignment – life-long learning: 5%
Mid-term exam: %
Human rights quiz: 5%
Case study: %
Final exam: %

3. Learning outcomes…
To interpret the roles and responsibilities of a Professional Engineer
To apply the Professional Engineers Act and professional ethics to example scenarios
To use relevant legal principles related to engineering practice
To critique individual learning need(s) and knowledge gaps
To communicate effectively, in a professional matter, technical AND non-technical contents to wide variety of audience.
To demonstrate use of Ontario Human Rights and Accessibility laws

4. Mid-semester feedback - What has worked well so far?
Short assignments, in class case studies
Kahoots and midterm review.
The PDF files for the mixes are provided and the lecture slides cover them well too.
Ethical problem examples in class, pre-tests and post-tests in mixes, socrative quizzes
The in-class discussions and quizzes - make the concepts less abstract
The course is very interactive.
The law aspect of the course
The office mixes
Use of class time to answer questions and solve problems
Examples of what you expect from us.
A mid-course feedback, rather than just one at the end!

5. Mid-semester feedback - What has not worked so well?
Dry lectures
The setup of Moodle is kind of confusing.
Hard to hear your voice in class and in the mixes.
I have trouble with answering the socrative quizzes and kahoots sometimes but would like this to carry on.
The Office Mixes are difficult to view depending on the web browser
More time than the given time on the test to reflect better.
It would be better if the in class discussion can be posted
The terms being used in this course.
Watching the videos has been a struggle
The quizzes in class take up a large amount of class time and do not add much in terms of content.

6. Mid-semester feedback - What would you like to see?
Maybe tutorials or something where small groups can work with a TA or professor to go through case studies
Documentary on some of the cases. Instead of having a class discussion regarding a case, maybe have us watch a video in class about it first.
The group project rubric or details could have been out earlier in the term
It would be great to have a component of the in-class quizzes on our final grade.
Maybe more hands on experiments
Tests and exams open-book
Analysis of lawsuits against corporations that harm the public welfare and environment yet seem to get away with their crime.
Maybe some examples from other fields of engineering like computing or electronics - for example, is there a way to judge if a program is harmful to the general public

7. Professional Engineering.
Where is this?
What is this room for, specifically?

8. Final Law mixes now available (as of late last night)

9. Today’s focus – remaining law content
Intellectual property
Privacy and security laws
Software laws
Geospatial data laws
Space laws

10. Intellectual property
What types are there (I’m looking for 6 – although you could find 8+)?

11. Intellectual property
What types are there (I’m looking for 6 – although you could find 8+)?
Copyright
patent
industrial design
trademark
trade secret
confidential information
(semiconductor design, plant varieties)
When should I use each?

12. Copyright What are the two necessary conditions for copyright?
How long do copy rights exist for?
What are moral rights?

13. Copyright
Only works that are original and fixed are protected by copyright.
A work is considered “original” when
it is the product of the author’s own skill, judgment and creativity, • has not been copied and
demonstrates more than a trivial, mechanical level of skill and judgment.
A work is “fixed” when it is produced onto any media, like paper or within a digital file.
Purely oral expression does not qualify for copyright
Ideas are not usually capable of being owned by anyone; The expression of ideas, if recorded, may have a copyright
Copyright exists for author's life plus 50 years except for photographs, sound recordings and films of live events, where a straight 50 year term from creation applies
Authors have "moral rights" to have their work properly attributed, and not to have it distorted or modified so as to prejudice their honour or reputation. This can only be waived, not assigned to anyone else

14. What is required for a patent?
How long do patent rights exist?
How soon after filing is a patent made public?

15. What is required for a patent?
Must be:
new — first in the world (but can be a “new improvement”)
useful — functional and operative; and
inventive — show ingenuity and not be obvious to someone of average skill in the field
Can be granted for
a product
a composition (e.g., a chemical composition);
an apparatus
a process
or an improvement on any of these.
Patents expire 20 years after the patent application was filed
Patents are made public 18 months after filing

16. What is novelty?

17. What is novelty?
If a single, publicly disclosed example of prior art contains all the information needed to produce the claimed invention, this may lead to disproving novelty
Any such disclosure must not have occurred by the applicant more than a year before filing in a way that was publicly visible, or by anyone else before the claim date in a way that was publicly visible (including a prior patent filing
A lack of novelty is often referred to as "anticipation“, with an 8-part test. The prior art mist give:
an exact prior description;
directions which if followed will result in at least part of the invention;
clear and unmistakable directions;
information which is equal to that given by the subject patent;
information so that a person grappling with the same problem must be able to say "that gives me what I wish";
information to a non-expert in a way they would recognize the invention;
in the absence of explicit directions, teach an "inevitable result" which "can only be proved by experiments"; and
satisfy all these tests in a single document.

18. Non-obviousness
The test is that an "unimaginative skilled technician” through general knowledge and literature and information available on the subject at the time of application would not have come up with the invention without difficulty

19. How can I get value from IP?

20. How can I get value from IP?
license/royalties
assignment/sale
equity/start up company
contracts/consulting work
trade secrets

21. Other laws Privacy laws - federal Provincial
Privacy act – federal government institutions
PIPEDA – applied to anyone undertaking federal work (e.g. contractor)
Provincial
FIPPA
MFIPPA
PHIPA

22. Which of these is personal information?
Name
Opinions about an individual
Birth date
Income
Physical description
Medical history
Gender
Religion
Address Political affiliations and beliefs
Education
Employment
Visual images where individuals may be identified

23. Security of information act
Secret information obtained in contravention of the act, OR communicated without authorization, used for a foreign power, retained when expected to be disposed of, or FAILED TO TAKE reasonable care of the information
Penalty – 2 years to LIFE imprisonment
What are the levels of information security?

24. Security of information act
Secret information obtained in contravention of the act, OR communicated without authorization, used for a foreign power, retained when expected to be disposed of, or FAILED TO TAKE reasonable care of the information
Penalty – 2 years to LIFE imprisonment
What are the levels of information security?
Protected - Unauthorized disclosure could reasonably be expected to cause injury to an individual interest such as a person or an organization.
Protected A - Injury to an individual, organization or government.
Protected B - Serious injury to an individual, organization or government. Protected C - Extremely grave injury to an individual, organization or government.
Classified - Unauthorized disclosure could reasonably be expected to cause injury to the defence and maintenance of the social, political and economic stability of Canada.
Confidential - Injury to the national interest.
Secret - Serious injury to the national interest
Top Secret - Exceptionally grave injury to the national interest

25. Arms control
Recognition by international community of the need to limit development of nuclear, chemical, biological weapons, by the world at large
Agreement not to have weapons in space (Outer Space Treaty, Article IV)
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
Dual-use technologies
Biological and Toxins Weapons Convention
Somewhat ironic, countries pushing the agreements themselves have already developed these weapons
Export controls: DFAIT
Controlled goods - CGP

26. What does export mean?