Patent application data and images (MIMOSA)

From: Canadian Intellectual Property Office

Download electronic scans of new patent applications filed with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office. We provide access to new applications weekly.

To download data for granted patents only, please visit our granted patent images page.

Note: We only publish patent applications after a confidentiality period. This period is up to 18 months after the earliest filing date of an application.

Format

We provide this data in MIMOSA and TIFF. All patent application files contain a searchable MIMOSA first page and TIFF images of the first 250 pages for each section of the patent document.

Information included

• Cover page: intellectual property number, name and address for applicant, inventor and agents, dates of filing and publication, issue and national entry, text searchable title and abstract, cover page image, priorities
• Claims: a legal description of the scope of the patent and definition of the specific attributes of the invention that are protected from infringement
• Disclosure/description: a full description of the invention
• Drawings: visual representations of the patent

Bibliographic data and abstracts are searchable.

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