Intellectual Property

Information on prior art searching, protecting your intellectual property within different business arrangements, and intellectual property disclosure. You can also access comprehensive lists of intellectual property brokers, tools, and experts. Search databases for patents and copyrights in Canada, the United States and around the world.

Overview

• A Guide to Protecting Your Intellectual Property
  This Guide has been prepared by the Canadian University Intellectual Property Group as a means to provide the Canadian University community with information on matters pertaining to intellectual property.
  
  Source: Strategis - Technology Commercialization Toolbox
• Canadian Intellectual Property Office
  The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) administers intellectual property systems in Canada (patents, trade-marks, copyrights, industrial designs and integrated circuit topographies) and disseminates IP information.
  
  Source: Canadian Intellectual Property Office
• IP Toolkit
  The IP Toolkit contains useful information, instructional modules, links and highlighted glossary terms to answer questions about Intellectual Property.
  
  Source: Canadian Intellectual Property Office
• NOVELINT
  NOVELINT is a technology broker that specializes in helping inventors and intellectual property owners maximize the value of their intellectual property.
  
  Source: NOVELINT
• Product Development - Intellectural Property Protection
  An excerpt from a guide aimed at providing medical devices product development information. It has a useful and concise description of protecting the four major types of intellectual property.
  
  Source: British Columbia - Health Industries Network
• WIPO Guide to Intellectual Property Worldwide
  This Guide is the first of its kind published by WIPO. It gives essential information on intellectual property by means of individual country profiles on WIPO Member States.
  
  Source: The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Patents

• Invention Disclosure Guide
  An invention disclosure report must be written up by inventors – professor-researchers, research personnel members, students – who wish to submit to the University's attention, an invention that they developed as a result of their research work. The UILO has prepared an Invention Disclosure Guide to that effect. (French version only)
  
  Source: University Industry Liason Office - University of Sherbrooke
• Patents
  The Patent Branch of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) receives, processes, examines applications and grants patents. This page offers access to the database, information guide, forms, publications and our e-services.
  
  Source: Canadian Intellectual Property Office

Copyright

• Copyrights
  The Copyright Office of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) is responsible for registering copyrights in Canada. This page offers access to the database, information guide, forms, publications and e-services.
  
  Source: Canadian Intellectual Property Office

Trade-marks

• Trademark Law in Canada
  This article provides a general description of copyright law in Canada, by Philip B. Kerr, Barrister and Solicitor.
  
  Source: Law Office of Philip B. Kerr
• Trade-marks
  The Trade-marks Branch of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) receives, processes, examines applications and registers trade-marks. This page offers access to the database, information guide, forms, publications and e-services.
  
  Source: Canadian Intellectual Property Office

Integrated Circuit Topographies

• Integrated Circuit Topographies
  The Copyright and Industrial Design Branch of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) receives, processes, examines applications and registers integrated circuit topographies. This page offers access to the information guide, forms, publications and e-services.
  
  Source: Canadian Intellectual Property Office

Industrial Designs

• Industrial Designs
  The Industrial Design Division of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) examines and registers industrial designs. This page offers access to the information guide, forms, publications and e-services.
  
  Source: Canadian Intellectual Property Office

Prior Art Searching

• An Introduction to Searching Software Prior Art
  Software has unique challenges when it comes to determining what constitutes prior art. This article gives a view on how the Patent and Trademark Office in the U.S. goes about the business of assessing the validity of a software claim. It also provides the reader with a good discussion of the process of developing a prior art search strategy and good research sources for carrying out the search.
  
  Source: Franklin Pierce Law Centre - IP Mall
• Keyword Patent Searching
  Keyword Patent Searching Online not only shows the reader how to use keywords, but uses actual examples, and then let's the reader develop search skills by performing actual patent searches on the Internet.
  
  Source: Keyword Patent Searching
• Preliminary Patent Searches
  Links to relevant search engines.
  
  Source: Canadian Intellectual Property Office

Confidentiality

• Protecting Intellectual Property - Anatomy of an Non-Disclosure Agreement
  Protecting Intellectual Property.
  
  Source: On-Site Counsel

Valuation

Databases

• Canadian Patent Database
  The Canadian Patent Database lets you access over 75 years of patent descriptions and images. You can search, retrieve and study more than 1,500,000 patent documents.
  
  Source: Canadian Intellectual Property Office
• Canadian Trade-mark Database
  A database for Canadian pending and registered trade-marks. This includes a listing of designs, wares, or services covered by registration, as well as owner's name and address.
  
  Source: Canadian Intellectual Property Office
• The European Patent Office
  This is the official Web site of the European Patent Office, the executive body of the European Patent Organisation.
  
  Source: The European Patent Office
• United States Patent and Trade-mark Office
  This is the only official Web site of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, a Performance-Based Organization of the Government of the United States of America, and an Agency of the U. S. Department of Commerce.
  
  Source: United States Patent and Trade-mark Office

Tools

• Intellectual Property - Glossary of Terms
  A concise glossary of terms with hyperlinks to additional information.
  
  Source: Canadian Intellectual Property Office
• Non-disclosure Agreement - Template
  Provides templates to three types of Non-disclosure agreements, in Adobe Acrobat portable document format (.pdf).
  
  Source: University Industry Liason Office - University of Sherbrooke

Expertise

• Canadian Innovation Centre
  Their range of services includes invention evaluation, technology due diligence, market research and education programs.
  
  Source: Canadian Innovation Centre
• Patent Agents List
  A list of registered patent agents who are ready to accept new customers.
  
  Source: Canadian Intellectual Property Office
• PATSCAN
  PATSCAN is a fee based patent research and consulting service of the University of British Columbia Library, which has served the research community in B.C. for over 15 years. PATSCAN is a leader in Western Canada in provision of technology transfer information services in the intellectual property area, hosting workshops and seminars on intellectual property management, competitive intelligence, and patent researching.
  
  Source: PATSCAN
• Trade-mark Agents List
  A list of registered agents who are ready to accept new customers.
  
  Source: Canadian Intellectual Property Office