Is a patent right for you?

At Innovate LLP, our firm is committed to helping you achieve the best legal protection for your idea, innovation or invention. Different scenarios will require different forms of intellectual property. When should someone consider a patent?

  • Do you want legal protection for an invention or an improvement upon an invention?[1]

  • Is your invention novel, utile and inventive?[2]

  • Is your invention a product, machine, process, composition or improves upon these areas?[3]

  • Do you want more than a decade of protection? Patents provide 20 years’ worth of protection.[4]

  • Are you willing to pay a sizeable amount of money, including maintenance fees?[5]

  • Do you want the exclusive use to determine how your invention is used and profit from your invention?

  • Is first-mover advantage not a reality in your market?

Then a patent might be for you!

[1] Patent Act, RSC 1985, c P-4. [Patent Act].

[2] Canadian Intellectual Property Office, “A Guide to Patents” (30 June 2016), Government of Canada (website), online:< https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cipointernet-internetopic.nsf/eng/h_wr03652.html#patentsDefined>. [A Guide to Patents]

[3] Patent Act, supra note 1.

[4] A Guide to Patents, supra note 2.

[5] Ibid.