Canada Business
The centres provide Canadian business people with a wide range of information on government services, programs and regulations.
Intellectual Property Policy Directorate (IPPD)
The IPPD bears primary responsibility for the development of Canada's intellectual property policies.
Life Sciences Gateway
Intellectual Property in the Life Sciences Industry
Copyright Policy
The Directorate of Copyright Policy is responsible for formulating and maintaining an integrated copyright policy for Canada as well as developing a legislative framework for the modernization and enhancement of copyright protection.
The Board is an economic regulatory body empowered to establish, either mandatorily or at the request of an interested party, the royalties to be paid for the use of copyrighted works, when the administration of such copyright is entrusted to a collective-administration society. The Board also has the right to supervise agreements between users and licensing bodies and issues licences when the copyright owner cannot be located.
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Patent Act
Trade-marks Act
Copyright Act
Industrial Design Act
Integrated Circuit Topography Act
North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
Consolidated Statutes of Canada
Legal Deposit is the means by which a comprehensive national collection is gathered together as a record of the nation's published heritage and development. Canadian publishers are required to send two copies of all the books, pamphlets, serial publications, microforms, spoken word sound recordings, videorecordings, electronic publications issued in physical formats (CD-R, CD-I, computer diskette, etc.), and one copy of musical sound recordings and multi-media kits they publish, to Library and Archives Canada.
The PMPRB contributes to Canadian health care by ensuring that prices of patented medicines are not excessive.
The Canadian Innovation Centre at Waterloo, Ontario, is Canada's leading organization dedicated to assisting inventors, entrepreneurs and innovative companies.
The Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) is Canada's pre-eminent association of professionals who specialize in intellectual property: patents for inventions, trade-marks, copyright, and industrial designs. IPIC is committed to the protection and promotion of intellectual property in the Canadian economy.