We are thankful to be welcome on these lands in friendship. The lands we are situated on are covered by the Williams Treaties and are the traditional territory of the Mississaugas, a branch of the greater Anishinaabeg Nation, including Algonquin, Ojibway, Odawa and Pottawatomi. These lands remain home to many Indigenous nations and peoples.

We acknowledge this land out of respect for the Indigenous nations who have cared for Turtle Island, also called North America, from before the arrival of settler peoples until this day. Most importantly, we acknowledge that the history of these lands has been tainted by poor treatment and a lack of friendship with the First Nations who call them home.

This history is something we are all affected by because we are all treaty people in Canada. We all have a shared history to reflect on, and each of us is affected by this history in different ways. Our past defines our present, but if we move forward as friends and allies, then it does not have to define our future.

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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:

	Patents	Trademarks	Copyrights	Industrial designs	Integrated Circuit Topographies	Plant breeders’
Term	Up to 20 years after filing	Renewable 10-year period	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