Description of last year's 2011 edition:
Intellectual
Property Statutes and Regulations with Related Materials 2011 has been
organized to reflect the following five areas of intellectual property:
- Patents
- Copyright
- Trade-marks
- Domain Names
- Industrial Designs and Miscellaneous Intellectual Property
Materials
Each section groups the relevant Canadian legislation,
including applicable regulations and enforcement guidelines, as well as
appropriate international materials of interest to Canadian practitioners along
with a comprehensive index. In addition to the applicable Acts and Regulations
governing the five areas of intellectual property, the following guidelines,
policies and international conventions have been reproduced in this edition:
- Manual of Patent Office Practice (MOPOP)
- Patent Cooperation Treaty, Patent Cooperation Treaty Rules
and the Contracting Parties thereto
- Canada Customs and Revenue Agency Memoranda D9-1-2, titled
"Copyrighted Books", and D19-4-3, titled "Copyright and Trade-Marks"
- Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic
Works, and the Contracting Parties thereto
- Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers
of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations, and the Contracting Parties
thereto
- Universal Copyright Convention, and the Contracting Parties
thereto
- WIPO Copyright Treaty, Agreed Statements and the Contracting
Parties thereto
- WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, Agreed Statements,
and the Contracting Parties thereto
- Trade-marks Examination Manual and amendments
- Madrid Protocol for the International Registration of Marks,
1989, and Contracting Parties thereto
- Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, Rules and
Approved Providers therefore
- Canadian Internet Registration Authority Registrant
Agreement, Registration Rules and Canadian Presence Requirements
- Industrial Design Office Practices
- Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property,
and the Contracting Parties thereto
- Contracting Parties to the World Trade Organization
- Competition Bureau Intellectual Property Enforcement
Guidelines.
New and revised legislation, regulations and related materials
in the 2011 edition include:
- Year in Review – Patents
- Year in Review – Copyright
- Year in Review – Trademarks
- Year in Review – Domain Names
- Patent Rules, SOR/96-423
- Manual of Patent Office Practice (Chapter 12 (Subject Matter
and Utility) and 13 (Examination of Applications)
- Contracting Parties to the Patent Cooperation Treaty
- Contracting Parties to the Rome Convention for the Protection
of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations
- Olympic and Paralympic Marks Act S.C. 2007, c. 25
- Industrial Design Office Practices
The legislation is current to Canada Gazette Part II, Volume
144:17 (August 18, 2010). Amendments to the Patent Rules, SOR/96-423, which are
effective October 1, 2010, are shown as being in force.
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