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What is CIPO?
The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), a
Special Operating Agency (SOA) associated with
Industry Canada, is
responsible for the administration and processing of the greater part of
intellectual property in Canada. CIPO's areas of
activity include:
- Patents cover new inventions
(process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter), or any new and useful
improvement of an existing invention;
- Trade-marks are words, symbols or
designs (or a combination of these), used to distinguish the wares or services
of one person or organization from those of others in the marketplace;
- Copyrights provide protection for artistic,
dramatic, musical or literary works (including computer programs), and three
other subject-matter known as: performance, sound recording and communication
signal;
- Industrial designs are the visual features of
shape, configuration, pattern or ornament (or any combination of these
features), applied to a finished article of manufacture;
- Integrated circuit topographies refer to the
three-dimensional configurations of electronic circuits embodied in integrated
circuit products or layout designs.
The
Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) manages another type of
intellectual property.
All sorts of people have a stake in intellectual
property — business people, inventors, artists, designers, electronic microchip
manufacturers, plant breeders and others.
Whatever your particular interest, you'll find the
type of intellectual property that applies to you on CIPO’s Web site.
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