Notice to Members of the 2024 Annual General Meeting
2024 Annual General Meeting Documents NOTICE is hereby given that the 2024 Annual General Meeting of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) will be held...
Top 5 Podcast Suggestions For IP Practitioners
It can be challenging to find extra time in the day for continuing legal education and keeping up to date in the evolving world of intellectual property law. Podcasts have...
Protecting Canada’s Economy: MP Brian Masse Pushes for Action Against Counterfeit Imports
Ottawa, ON - On Tuesday, June 18, Brian Masse , MP for Windsor West and NDP critic for Canada-US border issues, joined representatives from IPIC and the Canadian...
From Uncertainty to Advocacy: Brandon Wozniak's Journey
I started university with a lot of uncertainty about what I wanted to do. I was interested in sciences, dentistry, and had even interned as a pharmacist in high school....
New Canadian Government IP Funding Programs
Innovative Canadian companies can benefit from new government funding that can be used to fund the development and implementation of IP strategy and filings. It is not common...
Strategies for Communicating with Inventors During Patent Prosecution
Adapted from an IPIC Webinar on September 26, 2023 by Richard Mar, Ilya Kalnish and Tamara O’Connell Over the course of a patent prosecution file, an agent will routinely be...
Diplomatic Conference: Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge
If the gestation period for dogs is two months, for humans it is nine months, and for African elephants it is a whopping twenty-one months, what is the gestation period for...
Call for Nominations 2024: Peter W. McBurney Memorial Award for Professional Excellence!
The Peter W. McBurney Memorial Award for Professional Excellence is given to an intellectual property (IP) professional in Canada; an IP Agent and/or Lawyer, and member of...
Call for Nominations 2024: Shelley Jones Outstanding Contribution Award!
The IPIC Shelley Jones Outstanding Contribution Award aims to recognize an IPIC member who has made a significant contribution and impact to IPIC and/or to the IP profession...
Call for Nominations 2024: Roger T. Hughes Future Leader Award!
The Roger T. Hughes Future Leader Award is given to an emerging leader/future leader and member of IPIC who has made significant contributions to an IPIC Committee,...
Call for Nominations 2024: Member of Distinction Award!
The IPIC Member of Distinction Award recognizes IP professionals who have made significant contributions to the Institute for over 20 consecutive years. Click here to access...
How to train your LLaMA ? – Copyright issues related to training of generative AI models
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) models have been making waves in the world and are even being termed as the steam engine of the fourth industrial revolution. These AI...
IPIC AND IP OSGOODE ANNOUNCE 16TH ANNUAL CANADIAN IP WRITING CHALLENGE
The Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) and IP Osgoode are delighted to announce our 2024 Canadian writing challenge in intellectual property law. Our goal is to...
False IP Complainants Get Shrunken Bank Accounts
Keezio Group and The Shrunks’ Family Toy Company were market competitors who sold inflatable beds for children through Amazon.com. Keezio brought a civil claim alleging that...
Bridge to Excellence: A look at the past to entice change for the future
Dr. Pia-Lauren Reece shares what Black History Month personally means to her through her presentation "Bridge to Excellence: A look at the past to entice change for the...
IP and the Black Experience in Canada
For Black History Month, I am reflecting on the intersections of intellectual property, business and the black experience in Canada. In the past several years, the spotlight...
IPIC Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) appointed to the CSAE EDI Advisory Committee
We are thrilled to share that IPIC’s Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI), Loreto Lamb has been selected to join the Canadian Society of Association Executives'...
Mentoring: The Words We Use (Matter)
We have all heard the proverb: Give a person a fish and you’ll feed them for a day; show them how to fish and you’ll feed them for a lifetime . The maxim has application in...
Inducing Infringement: is the bar too low? A review of the case of Janssen Inc. v. Apotex Inc.
In the pharmaceutical area, the issue of inducing infringement is an important one. Consider the fact situation: A brand company obtains a basic patent on a new compound A....
Help Support the IPIC Foundation this GivingTuesday!
This November 28th the IPIC Foundation ( Patent &Trademark Institute Educational Foundation (PTIEF) , whose objective is to support education and scholarship in the field of...