Are you breaching the intellectual property because you're saying, 'On our side, the way we decontaminate this material is A, B, C, D? In the wake of those trips, PHAC discovered Qiu was listed as an inventor on two patents filed by agencies in China in and — a concern that Kobinger said snowballed needlessly. That means Canada would be unlikely to receive royalties associated with any sales of the technology, should it get to market.
Federal legislation states Ottawa owns all inventions made by public servants, and a government employee can't file for a patent outside of the country without the minister's permission. Qiu told him she was unaware her name had been added to the patents — and that she herself reported the second one to PHAC. When Qiu was escorted out of the NML in July , all of her Chinese students were also asked to leave — a move that suggests PHAC was worried about who had access to the lab, which is equipped to work with the most serious and deadly human and animal diseases.
It's a concern that has also been raised by security experts and politicians, who further point to one graduate student in particular: Feihu Yan. Anyone working at the Winnipeg lab needs one of three levels of federal security clearance :. A reliability status — the minimum standard for positions requiring unsupervised access to Government of Canada protected information, assets, facilities or information technology systems — assesses a person's honesty and whether they can be trusted to protect the employer's interests.
Secret and Top Secret clearances assess a person's loyalty to Canada to determine if they have or are likely to engage in activities that constitute a "threat to the security of Canada.
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