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- Idea
- What exists in the mind as an intangible creation.
- Industrial Design Office
- The office that receives, processes, classifies, searches and examines applications for registration of industrial designs. The Canadian Industrial Design Office is known as the Industrial Design Division and belongs to the Copyright and Industrial Design Branch. The Division also registers assignments, licences and changes of ownership, and collects fees. Once registered, industrial designs are publicly disclosed and become part of the register maintained by the Division. Copyrights, industrial designs and integrated circuit topographies are all managed under the direction of the Copyright and Industrial Design Branch.
- Industrial design right
- In general, it is the exclusive right to use a design. More precisely, it is the exclusive right to make, import for trade or business, rent or sell or expose for sale or rent in Canada, any article in respect of which the design is registered and to which the design is applied.
- Industrial designs
- The visual features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament (or any combination of these features), applied to a finished article of manufacture.
- Industry Canada
- The department of Industry Canada works with Canadians throughout the economy and in all parts of the country to improve conditions for investment, improve Canada's innovation performance, increase Canada's share of global trade and build a fair, efficient and competitive marketplace.
- Information Officer
- Federal employees who work in the Client Service Centre of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office and who provide assistance to the public.
- Infringement (copyrights)
- Violation of copyright through unauthorized copying or use of a work or other subject matter under copyright.
- Infringement (industrial designs)
- Violation of industrial design rights through unauthorized use of a design.
- Infringement (integrated circuit topographies)
- Violation of the integrated circuit topography rights by reproducing a protected topography or any substantial part of one; manufacturing an integrated circuit product incorporating the topography or a substantial part of one; importing or commercially exploiting a topography or a substantial part of one, or of an integrated circuit product that embodies a protected topography or a substantial part of one; importing or commercially exploiting an industrial article which incorporates an integrated circuit product that embodies a protected topography, or a substantial part of one.
- Infringement (patents)
- Violation of patent rights through unauthorized use, making and or selling of the patented invention.
- Infringement (trade-marks)
- Violation of trade-marks owners' rights through unauthorized use of a trade-mark.
- Infringer
- Violator of intellectual property rights.
- Ingenious (patents)
- A development or an improvement is considered ingenious if it is not obvious to workers of average skill in this area of technology.
- Injunction
- An order by a Court instructing a person to stop or start doing a particular act.
- Intangible assets
- The assets of a company that are saleable but not material or physical as the tangible assets are.
- Intangible creation
- What exists in the mind and is not yet developed into a tangible creation.
- Integrated Circuit Topographies
- The three-dimensional configuration of the electronic circuits embodied in integrated circuit products or layout designs.
- Integrated circuit topography document
- A document showing drawings of the three-dimensional configuration of the electronic circuits used in microchips and semiconductor chips along with other information from an integrated circuit topography file with the Integrated Circuit Topography Office.
- Integrated Circuit Topography Office
- The office registering integrated circuit topographies. The Canadian Integrated Circuit Topography Office belongs to CIPO's Copyright and Industrial Design Branch. Copyrights, industrial designs and integrated circuit topographies are all managed under the direction of the Copyright and Industrial Design Branch.
- Integrated circuit topography rights
- Canada's integrated circuit topography legislation protects the original design of a registered topography, whether it has been embodied in an integrated circuit product or not. More precisely, the legislation permits owners of registered topographies to exclude others from: reproducing a protected topography or any substantial part of one; manufacturing an integrated circuit product incorporating the topography or a substantial part of one; importing or commercially exploiting a topography or a substantial part of one, or of an integrated circuit product that embodies a protected topography or a substantial part of one; importing or commercially exploiting an industrial article which incorporates an integrated circuit product that embodies a protected topography, or a substantial part of one.
- Intellectual capital
- It is the sum of an organization's ideas, inventions, technologies, brands, general knowledge, software, designs, processes, etc. i.e., knowledge that can be converted into profit.
- Intellectual property infringement (IP infringement)
- A violation of intellectual property rights while they are in force. See also Infringement (patents, trade-marks, copyrights, industrial designs and integrated circuit topographies).
- Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC)
- The intellectual property association in Canada to which nearly all registered patent agents, registered trade-mark agents and lawyers specializing in intellectual property belong.
- Intellectual property (IP)
- Very broadly, means legal rights that result from intellectual activity in the industrial, scientific, literary and artistic fields.
- Intellectual property assets (IP assets)
- Those intangible assets that may be protected by formal legislation (e.g. patents, trade-marks, industrial designs, copyrights, integrated circuit topographies, plant breeders' rights) or that are provided national and international value (e.g. know-how, trade-secrets).
- Intellectual property laws (IP laws)
- The group of laws relating to different types of intellectual property rights.
- Intellectual property lawyer (IP lawyer)
- A lawyer advising or representing clients on intellectual property issues or court proceedings.
- Intellectual property licence (IP licence)
- It is the formal agreement to transfer a portion of the intellectual property rights from the owner called licensor to another party called licensee. The grant of a licence implies the agreement of the intellectual property owner not to enforce his/her intellectual property rights against the licensee.
- Intellectual property ownership (IP ownership)
- Ownership of a type of intellectual property obtained as result of a grant or registration or through an assignment.
- Intellectual property protection (IP protection)
- The protection involving the possibility of enforcing the intellectual property rights by the intellectual property owner with the help of the legal system.
- Intellectual property rights (IP rights)
- Intellectual property rights, whether in the form of patents, trade-marks, copyrights, industrial designs, integrated circuit topographies, or plant breeders' rights reward this intellectual activity in the industrial, scientific, literary and artistic fields.
- Intellectual property search (IP search)
- Search of different intellectual property documents (e.g. patent, trade-mark, copyright or industrial design documents).
- International or Canadian Patent Classification
- Detailed classification systems of patent documents that help people to retrieve relevant patent information. Canadian patent documents filed prior to October 1,1989, are classified according to the Canadian Patent Classification system. Patent documents filed on or after October 1,1989, are classified and searchable according to the International Patent Classification (IPC) system.
- INTREPID
- Integrated trade-mark electronic processing of information and designs.
- Inventiveness
- To be patentable, an invention must be a development or an improvement that would not have been obvious beforehand to workers of average skill in the technology involved.
