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Thus far, our Everyday IP blog series has covered some of
the most common but essential items used by people all over the
world - socks and toothbrushes - and tied them to major
developments in the history of Intellectual Property. Now, we turn
to another thing that we likely take for granted daily, but without
which we would not exist in any way as we do today: indoor
plumbing.
Answering the question, When was indoor plumbing
invented? is somewhat complicated. It involves not one single
Introduction
We have come a long way since 1955 when John McCarthy, winner of
the Turing Prize in 1971 defined Artificial Intelligence (AI) as
Making a machine behaves in ways that would be called
intelligent if human were so behaving . It is only
recently that AI technology has undergone a rapid progress and has
become one of the hottest trends of the present world. The impact
of AI on our day to day lives is intensively being deliberated upon
in almost every corner of the world. It has garnered much needed
attention not only from the business sector and academia but also
There has been some uncertainty surrounding the Canadian Intellectual Property Office's (CIPO) practices related to granting extensions of time to respond to an office action on a patent application.