The Patent Search Engines
Getting a Canadian Patent Search. To search for a patent you may do an online patent search on a particular country or do an international patent search. What about a Canada patent search?
There are good resources available when you want to focus your search on Canada.
Laws and Rules
In addition to patent searching I often want to review some of the more subtle issues of Canadian Patent Law. Like the US Patent Office Canada has a Manual of Patent Office Practice before the CIPO (Canadian Intellectual Patent Office).
Find the Manual Here.
When you want to search for a patent in Canada probably the best search engine is the Canadian Patents Database. It is found on the main website of the CIPO. This patent search engine, like many others allows an online patent search by four techniques:
Enter a general search term
Number
Enter a known patent numberBoolean
My preference when I want to search for a patent. Enter terms using Boolean logic.Advanced
My second favorite. Search simultaneously on a number of termsThere are other options.
There is also patent search capability from the Virtual Reference Library of Ontario.
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