Canadian IP System
In Canada, you can formally protect the value of your creations through 6 main types of IP rights. The criteria for ownership and protection are different for each type of IP:
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Integrated Circuit Topographies |
Plant breeders’ |
Term |
Up to 20 years after filing |
Renewable |
Life plus 50 years |
Up to 10 years |
10 years |
up to 25 years for variety of tree and vine, and 20 years for all other varieties of plants |
Protection |
Apply nationally |
Reputation or goodwill for a service or product in the geographic area (registration can be sough in Canada) |
Work fixed in a tangible medium of expression (registration can be sought in Canada) |
Apply nationally |
Apply nationally |
Apply nationally |
Protects against |
Use, sale, manufacture |
Use |
Copying, reproducing |
Manufacture, sale, rent or importation |
Use, sale, manufacture |
Sale |
What is protected |
Inventions |
Identity of your products and services: words, symbols and designs |
Original literary, artistic, musical and dramatic works, and other subject matters: sound recordings, performances, communication signals |
Visual appearance of a product: ornamentation, shape, pattern, configuration |
Original integrated circuit layout designs |
New varieties of plants and their respective propagating material |