INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

 

Guides and databases of trademarks, patents and industrial designs, and directories of patent and trademark agents in Canada.

Canadian Intellectual Property Office – Trade-Marks
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/cipo/tm/tm_main-e.html
Links to the Guide to Trademarks, the Trade-Marks Act and regulations, the application process, a list of trade-mark agents alphabetically and by province, and a searchable database of Canadian trade-marks. A list of trade-mark agents is at http://napoleon.ic.gc.ca/cipo/agentdb.nsf/
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Canadian Intellectual Property Office – Industrial Designs
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/cipo/id/id_main-e.html
Links to the Guide to Industrial Designs, the Industrial Design Act and regulations, the application process, and a searchable database of Canadian industrial designs. [English, French]
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Canadian Intellectual Property Office – Patents
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/cipo/patents/
pt_main-e.html
Links to the Guide to Patents, the Patent Act and rules, the application process, and a searchable database of Canadian patents. A list of patent agents is at http://napoleon.ic.gc.ca/cipo/agentdb.nsf/
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A Guide To Protecting Intellectual Property
http://www.research.utoronto.ca/ipc/cuipg.html
This Guide was prepared by the Canadian University Intellectual Property Group for the Canadian University community. It briefly covers patents, publication, copyright, know-how, invention disclosure, and the commercialization process. [English]    Canadian source 

Free Trade Area of the Americas – Intellectual Property Rights
http://www.alca-ftaa.org/IntProp/ipnatleg_e.asp#CAN
Free Trade Area of the Americas. This section links to laws on copyright and related rights and industrial property (patents, trademarks, industrial designs). It also includes legislation on plant varieties protection, layout-designs (topographies) of integrated circuits and transfer of technology. [English, French]