IP Hub: Create it - Intellectual property strategy

Learn from resources worldwide on different aspects of building an IP strategy, such as ownership, management, market assessment and valuation.

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Canada's IP Strategy
The Government of Canada is making sure that Canadian businesses, creators, entrepreneurs and innovators have access to the best possible IP resources through IP awareness, education and advice; strategic IP tools for growth; and IP legislation.

Topics related to developing your IP strategy

IP strategy

Lexology

• How to develop an IP strategy: outline of steps

MaRS

• IP strategy: Your IP is a company asset

Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property

• What does an IP strategy consist of?

IP ownership

IP Australia

• IP ownership

MaRS

• IP and inventions: Who owns the IP?

IP management

Europe

• European Patent Office – IP Teaching Kit: IP Management
  IP Management provides you with teaching material about IP management, strategy and commercialization.
• Innovaccess – IP Management: Different Strategies of IP

Montréal InVivo

• The impact of patent timing
• Co-development agreement: How to play by the rules with your business partner

World Intellectual Property Organization

• Managing the IP Assets of Your Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
• Some Important Steps to be Considered While Developing an IP Strategy

Market assessment

University of Manitoba

• IP and Market Assessments

IP valuation

Europe

• IPR Helpdesk – IP valuation methods in practice
• IPR Helpdesk – Fact Sheet: IP Valuation

World Intellectual Property Organization

• IP Panorama – Learning module 11: IP Valuation
• SMEs – Articles on IP valuation

Put these great tools to use when creating your own IP strategy!

• Business Development Bank of Canada and Canadian Intellectual Property Office – IP strategy assessment
• IP strategy online course
  This course is provided by the Centre for International Governance Innovation and shows how IP can be strategically leveraged to advance business objectives.
• ipHandbook of Best Practices – IP Strategy
• MaRS – Entrepreneur workbooks
• World Intellectual Property Organization – IP Management Training Program
  The objective of the program is to create a critical mass of trainers in a country who have the basic knowledge, skills and experience to provide preliminary IP assistance to students, entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on effective IP asset management to enhance the competitiveness and sustainability of the SMEs in the domestic and international markets.

You can get help and advice on creating your own IP strategy from the organizations below:

Canadian Intellectual Property Office

• Client Service Centre
• IP advisors

IP agents

• College of Patent Agents and Trademark Agents
• Intellectual Property Institute of Canada

Other experts

• Government of Canada
  • National Research Council Canada – Industrial Research Assistance Program
  • Innovative Solutions Canada
  • Business and industry
  • Innovation Canada
  • Sustainable Development Technology Canada
  • Business Development Bank of Canada
• Provincial
  • British Columbia – Innovate BC
• Regional
  • Invest Ottawa
  • Montréal International
• Small business
  • Communitech
  • MaRS
  • Startup Canada
• Women
  • Communitech – Fierce Founders Accelerator