PATSCAN

Canadian Intellectual Property Office: Excellent site with current legal info, related to patent topics and legislation; provides guide to the process of obtaining the patent; includes forms, fees, guidelines for the process, etc.; updated to different dates per different sections (the most recent update is 14/03/2000); contains a combination of legal, procedural and reference materials; has links to such sources as Patent Act and regulations (including Patent Rules), Patent Office Record, Manual of Patent Office Practice, directory of Patent Agents, etc. http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/engdoc/homepage.html

Canadian Patent Reporter (CPR), at Quick Law: Excellent for the commentaries and reseDecember 28, 2007f printed Canadian Patent Reporter; covers materials from 1941to the present; contains full text plus headnotes of judgments.

Industry Canada. Strategis database: Among other information, provides good current links for research on the topic.

CIPO's Canadian Patent database: Contains patent documents from the last 75 years; searchable; has links to U.S. and European patent sites; good source for retrieving actual patent documents; will not be useful for patent law secondary or primary sources.

Quick Law: Intellectual Property Law Cases from Quick Law (IPLQ) is a global database which searches:

Canadian Judgments (CJ) Full text intellectual property law cases selected by QUICKLAW from the (CJ), primarily since 1991. Being backdated.

Dominion Report Service (DRS) Intellectual property law case digests from) since 1968, with hypertext links to full text cases and citator records. Being backdated.

Covers time period from 1968 to the present. When searching limit your search to patent related issues. Also see following databases: CPR, IPLQ, CBD, TMOB, ILU, VAIP, LNIP.

Centre for Innovation Law and Policy (University of Toronto Law School): An academic centre devoted to the study of laws, institutions and policies that affect, or are affected by, innovation or technological change.