IP Hub: Learn it - Intellectual property

There is valuable information from intellectual property (IP) organizations worldwide. Check out the links below to learn more about IP from around the world:

Canada

• Canadian Intellectual Property Office

Europe

• European Patent Office – IP Teaching Kit
• United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office

United States

• United States Patent and Trademark Office

World

• World Intellectual Property Organization

Explore the links below to gain knowledge about intellectual property (IP):

Guides and tools

• Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) – IP Diagnosis: Evaluate your needs
• CIPO – IP in Canada
• CIPO – IP inventory checklist
  Use this checklist to explore the types of IP you could exploit.
• United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) – IP Awareness Assessment Tool
  This tool allows you to assess your IP awareness. Following the completion of the assessment, you will receive customized training material.
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) – What is Intellectual Property? (PDF Version)

E-learning platforms

Europe

• European Patent Office – e-learning centre
  Browse through the various training offered by the EPO relating to patents and business.
• European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) – Academy Learning Portal
  The online home of the EUIPO learning and knowledge-sharing hub. Browse through the "Quick Links" to find courses and webinars on various trademark, design and IP topics.
• European IPR Helpdesk
  The European IPR Helpdesk offers free-of-charge, first-line support on IP matters to beneficiaries of research projects funded by the European Union and European Union small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) involved in transnational partnership agreements.
• Europeantmdn
  This is a hub that connects national and regional IP offices, user associations and other IP organizations, which work together to achieve a true trademark and design system in Europe. This means that common practices, services and tools are focused on the needs of IP professionals and rights holders.
• Innovaccess
  Innovaccess is a portal, managed by the EU VIP4SME network, that helps companies and mainly SMEs to recognize the importance of IP and turn intellectual capital into commercial values and competitiveness.

United States

• USPTO – Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA)
  The GIPA provides IP training in a variety of different topics that focus primarily on enforcement, patents, trademarks and copyrights. GIPA programs are run on a fiscal calendar from October to September and are conducted around the world.

World

• WIPO – Academy
  The Academy is the center of excellence for IP education and training for WIPO member states, in particular developing countries, least-developed countries and countries in transition. The Academy works to help build human capacity in IP, which is essential to innovation.
• WIPO – eLearning Center
  This is a portfolio of courses on IP that cater to different target audiences. Courses combine traditional face-to-face and distance learning methodologies and explain how to stimulate innovation, creativity and development.

Games

• CIPO and the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) – IP Game
  Play an interactive game to discover more about IP and protecting your intangible assets.

Case studies

• CIPO – IP Case Studies
  These teaching tools demonstrate the strategic value of IP to college and university students.
• IP Australia – Case studies
• WIPO – IP Advantage
  The case studies in the IP Advantage database offer insights into how IP works in the real world and how its successful exploitation can contribute to development.

Publications

Articles

• Lexology
  Lexology delivers the most comprehensive source of international legal updates, analysis and insights. We publish in excess of 450 articles every day from over 800 leading law firms and service providers worldwide across 50 work areas in 25 languages.
• BDC – IP: How to protect your investments
• BDC – Patents, trademarks and copyright: How to protect your business ideas
• WIPO – Risky business: the five biggest IP mistakes startups make

Magazines

• Intellectual Property Magazine
• WIPO Magazine

Newsletters

• CIPO – Newsletters
  Stay in touch with the latest developments at CIPO by registering to the free email subscription services that interest you, such as Corporate News, IP for Business News, Canadian Trademark News, Canadian Patent News or Canadian Industrial Design News.
• USPTO – Newsletters
• WIPO – Newsletters
  Stay up to date with news and announcements from WIPO in your area of interest.

Reports

• CIPO – Publications
• WIPO – Statistics

IP for Business – resources

• CIPO – IP for Business
• USPTO – Inventor and entrepreneur resources
• WIPO – IP for Business
• WIPO – Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Need help? You are not alone. Here is a list of intellectual property (IP) experts who can provide you with resources and information to guide you through the application process and advise you on your own IP strategy

Canadian Intellectual Property Office

• Client Service Centre
• IP advisors

IP agents

• College of Patent Agents and Trademark Agents
• Intellectual Property Institute of Canada

Canadian universities with IP courses

• Carleton University
• IP Osgoode
• McGill University
• University of Ottawa
• University of British Columbia