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In today's world, it is so easy for somebody to snatch your brilliant ideas and make a fortune off your hard work and genius. This is why it is so important to make sure that your ideas or products are patent protected before you put them out into the world.

Getting a patent for your idea in Canada is the best way to protect your intellectual rights. It ensures that you have the right to stop anyone from using, making or selling your invention against your will.

Intellectual Property Rights Due Diligence is an assessment of the intellectual property assets owned or used by an individual, company, or business. This is done either offensively to purchase, or defensively to sell or out permit.

If you are an inventor or engineer looking to get a patent on a new invention or product, then you will eventually have to submit a patent draft. This is an application that gives a governing body (which in Canada is the Canadian Intellectual Property Office)

In simple terms, patent licensing involves the licensor giving up the right to their intellectual property to a licensee in exchange for some form of financial return. This is usually done for a predetermined period of time.

As a business owner, you are always looking for opportunities to grow your company. This is why so many in the corporate world strive to expand their reach beyond their home country and get into markets in other countries.

Freedom to Operate (FTO) is, in essence, the freedom to commercialize your invention in a marketplace without the fear of infringing on a third party’s patent. To determine whether your product has FTO you must first conduct an FTO Search.

One of the possible goals of the patenting process is the licensing of the patent. A patent license is an agreement between the patent owner and a licensee to transfer rights associated with the patent.

Patents are large commodities that are held by businesses, groups, or individuals and should be treated as such. Additionally, patents can be one of the largest indicators of a company's value...

We recently put together a white paper that focuses on TRIPS (or the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights). TRIPS was created to implement a uniform set of intellectual property protection across members of nations to create ...