The following resources and websites offer helpful advice and information for new inventors and entrepreneurs. Check the Legal Help section for information about applying for a patent or design and working with patent attorneys.
ExploreIP is Canada's IP marketplace. It provides a platform for exploring possible licensing and collaboration opportunities with public sector patent holders.
This online handbook is published by the Lemelson-MIT Program and explains the patent process, prior art searching, creating a business plan, licensing and raising capital.
Toronto-based MaRS offers support and education services to entrepreneurs and innovators. The MaRS Library contains dozens of templates, videos, and guides on a range of topics.
A monthly magazine published by the World Intellectual Property Organization that explores intellectual property, creativity and innovation around the world.
Former online exhibit highlighting Alberta's rich history of innovation. Includes a database of patents granted to Alberta residents from 1905 through 1975. Now archived on the Internet Archive..
CBC program broadcast in 2007 that asked viewers to vote for the greatest Canadian invention. The winner was synthetic insulin, which was patented by Frederick Banting, Charles Best, and James Collip in 1923.
Established in 1982, the Manning Innovation Award recognizes Canadian innovators who have developed and successfully marketed a new concept, product, process or procedure. Approximately 120 Canadians have received the award.
Biographies of hundreds of inventors inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, which is located in Ohio and operates a museum at the USPTO in Alexandria, Virginia.
First awarded in 1985, the National Medal of Technology and Innovation recognizes individuals, teams (up to four individuals), companies or divisions of companies for their successful development and commercialization of technological products, processes and concepts.