IP Toolbox
Customize, create or add to your existing intellectual property (IP) kit with these handy tools, resources and wide-ranging informational material.
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IP Basics
Learn about the different IP rights that can turn an idea into a successful business by setting you apart from the competition.
IP roadmaps
IP roadmap – Your path to international industrial design registration – Filing with WIPOView as PDF (PDF: 964 KB; 1 page)
IP roadmap – Your path to protect plant varietiesView as PDF (PDF: 64 KB; 1 page)
IP roadmap – Your path to trademark registrationView as PDF (PDF: 92 KB; 1 page)
IP roadmap – Your path to industrial design registration – Filing with CIPOView as PDF (PDF: 201 KB; 1 page)
IP roadmap – Geographical Indications in CanadaView as PDF (PDF: 13 KB; 1 page)
Fact sheets
Intellectual property inventory checklistView as PDF (PDF: 57 KB; 1 page)
Hiring an intellectual property professionalView as PDF (PDF: 458 KB; 2 pages)
Intellectual property: It's yours. Own it.View as PDF (PDF: 1.13 MB; 16 pages)
Intellectual property in CanadaView as PDF (PDF: 208 KB; 1 page)
CopyrightView as PDF (PDF: 621 KB; 1 page)
Industrial designsView as PDF (PDF: 530 KB; 1 page)
PatentView as PDF (PDF: 612 KB; 1 page)
Trade secretsView as PDF (PDF: 593 KB; 1 page)
TrademarksView as PDF (PDF: 593 KB; 1 page)
Cleantech and intellectual propertyView as PDF (PDF: 631 KB; 1 page)
Plant breeders' rightsView as PDF (PDF: 1.03 MB; 2 page)
Exporting
Businesses increasingly operate in a global marketplace, selling their products and services or licensing and franchising their IP rights beyond their national borders.
Guides
AustraliaView as PDF (PDF: 1.7 MB; 13 pages)
MexicoView as PDF (PDF: 2.2 MB; 13 pages)
JapanView as PDF (PDF: 1.4 MB; 13 pages)
ChinaView as PDF (PDF: 2.3 MB; 12 pages)
United StatesView as PDF (PDF: 2.5 MB; 12 pages)
European UnionView as PDF (PDF: 3.6 MB; 12 pages)
IndiaView as PDF (PDF: 3.5 MB; 12 pages)
Fact sheet
Doing business abroadView as PDF (PDF: 191 KB; 1 page)
Resources
Tools and resources that can help you better understand the intellectual property.
- Fast-track your clean technology patent application
- Intellectual property protection for cannabis
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Business Development Bank of Canada – IP Strategy Assessment Tool
- Business Development Bank of Canada – CIPO IP game
- IP success stories
- "What is intellectual property?" video series
- Identifying your IP assets
- Stand out from your competitors
- Why IP matters
- Combatting counterfeit products
- IP diagnosis – Evaluate your needs
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