September 4, 2012in Canada, Cross Border Issues, IP Reform, Patent Practice, Patentability, Patents, Regulatory Policy, Smartphones, Tech Transfer, Technology, Uncategorized, US, US-Canada Relations5by Editor927 Avoiding Poison Apples and Tending to Blackberries: Did Canada’s 1989 Shift To First-To-File Nip Small-Time Innovation In the Bud? New legal research from the University of Pennsylvania Law School suggests so. The aim of the study, according to Professors David S. Abrams and R. Polk Wagner, is to empirically predict…