Bank of Speakers

What is the Bank of Speakers?

The CIPO-IPIC Bank of Speakers (BoS) is a collaborative effort of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), an agency of Industry Canada and the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC), the professional association specializing in intellectual property (IP).

If you provide advice to Canadian businesses, innovators or creators, and would like to organize workshops on IP, the BoS is the perfect service for you.

CIPO and IPIC unite to deliver educational IP presentations to public, private and educational organizations in Canada. Our goal is to help small and medium businesses and students understand IP and influence the management of IP as a critical business instrument.

How it works

• An organization requests an IP presentation online.
• The BoS Coordinator pairs a volunteer IPIC IP specialist with the requesting organization. The presentation location and logistics are confirmed and information kits are provided for audience distribution.

Three one-hour IP presentations are available on request:

• IP: What's in it for you? (introduces five main IP rights)
• Trade-marks: What's in it for you?
• Patents: What's in it for you?

Each presentation introduces one or more IP rights, their strategic value and the resources available to learn more about the topic.

How do I request a speaker?

• Complete and submit the Request a Speaker form.

For other types of requests, please Contact Us.