Patent data and images

Download electronic scans of newly granted and laid open patent applications filed with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office. We provide access to new image files weekly.

Note: We only publish patent applications after a confidentiality period. This period is up to 18 months after the earliest filing date of an application.

Format

We provide this data in multi-page Tag Image File Format (TIFF). All patent image files contain cover pages once they are generated by the office and TIFF images of the first 250 pages for each section of the patent document.

Record and data content

Patent image collections are provided for both patent applications and granted patents. Patent data is open to public inspection after a confidentiality period of up to 18 months after the earliest filing date of an application. Each patent image collection includes scanned TIFF images of the patent application and additional text content of the title and abstract.

Images include:

• Cover page (IP number, name and address for applicant, inventor and agents, dates of filing and publication, issue and national entry, text searchable title and abstract, cover page image, priorities)
• Patent description
• Claims (a legal description of the scope of the patent and defines the specific attributes of the invention that are protected from infringement)
• Drawings

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