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Protect your rights
Just as a business should protect its assets through insurance; priority
should be placed on protecting IP. Some may consider it expensive to
spend precious start-up capital protecting IP, but launching a new
venture without it is like buying a building without checking the real estate title.
Ice Hockey and Intellectual Property
A modern-day goaltender's hockey equipment could net big bucks for any innovator.
Did you know that many features from blades to blockers can be protected by patents, industrial
designs, trade-marks and copyright too? Point and click on the goalie to find out what types of
intellectual property have been used to protect his hockey equipment.
We're surrounded by inventions. Discover fun facts about intellectual property!
A visit to CIPO leads to... a book!
| Who invented . . . the radio, basketball, the snowmobile, the
pacemaker, the electric cooking range, kerosene, fibre optics, the synthesizer,
insulin, standard time, Java software, canola, the cobalt bomb and the
artificial human heart? Why Canadians, of course! You can find out more about
these inventions (and many others) in Inventing Canada, by Roy Mayer.
This book, published in 1997, (ISBN 1-55192-113-8) pays tribute
to some Canadian inventors over the last hundred years. |
An inventor
himself, Mr. Mayer is familiar with the various sources of information
available at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO). It is not
surprising, then, that he started his research by consulting TechSource, the
Canadian automated patent system.
Consult the CIPO databases to find out whether your idea is truly original. To
get off to a good start, when thinking innovation, think "CIPO". It's worth a look!
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