Traduction de «Bureau des brevets et du droit d'auteur » (Français → Anglais) :

7 (1) No officer or employee of the Patent Office shall buy, sell, acquire or traffic in any invention, patent or right to a patent, or any interest therein, and every purchase, sale, assignment, acquisition or transfer of any invention, patent or right to a patent, or any interest therein, made by or to any officer or employee is void.

46. The Copyright Office shall be attached to the Patent Office.

The TRIPS agreement, building on the principles of the Paris and Berne conventions—that's on patents and copyright—obliged signatories to adhere to an international baseline for standards of protection for all areas of intellectual property: patents, trademarks, copyright.

The essence of the policy (as required by the Copyright Act) is that any intellectual property (patent or a copyright) that potentially belongs to the Crown must be identified, and, confidentiality must be applied to ensure that the potential is not lost, until a determination is made regarding patents or copyright.

For the purposes of this Agreement, intellectual property rights embodies copyright - including copyright in computer programs and in databases - and related rights, the rights related to patents, industrial designs, geographical indications including appellation of origins, trademarks, layout-designs (topographies) of integrated circuits, as well as protection of undisclosed information and protection against unfair competition as referred to in Article 10 bis of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (Stockholm Act, 1967).

5. For the purpose of this Agreement, intellectual property includes in particular copyright, including the copyright on computer programmes, and neighbouring rights, including artistic designs, and industrial property which includes utility models, patents including patents for bio-technological inventions and plant varieties or other effective sui generis systems, industrial designs, geographical indications including appellations of origin, trademarks for goods or services, topographies of integrated circuits as well as the legal protection of data bases and the protection against unfair competition as referred to in Article 10a of th ...[+++]e Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property and protection of undisclosed confidential information on know how.