Infrastructures and Services

Building intellectual property in Montreal

There are important legal advantages in creating intellectual property in Montreal:

Companies based in Canada are not obligated to file patent applications here before seeking patent authorization in other countries.

The relative lack of export control in comparison to the United States can greatly simplify collaborative research within an international company between a Montreal R&D unit and units in other countries outside of the USA. Furthermore, inventions made in Canada are granted a date of invention for the purposes of establishing priority rights under US patent law, just as if the invention had been made in the United States.

Canada is a member of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) under which Canadian companies have access to an efficient mechanism to seek patent protection in many foreign countries. Canadian patent law complies with World Trade Organisation intellectual property provisions, and affords patent protection essentially on an equal basis with other leading industrialized countries.

Research commercialization

Over the past decade both the Quebec and Canadian governments have put in place measures to generate better returns on public money invested in research. The result has been very positive for Montreal’s Universities.

Univalor

www.univalor.ca — CEO: Marc Leroux

Valchum Inc.

www.groupecrea.com

McGill Office of Technology Transfer

www.techtransfer.mcgill.ca —

The Blue Book is a database that facilitates research relationships with industry and other institutions while improving access to McGill’s expertise and commercializable technologies.

innovacor

www.icm-mhi.org/en/valorisation-recherche — CEO: Jacques Oliva Bélair

Valeo Management l.p.

www.gestionvaleo.com — CEO: Jean-Marc Proulx

This document had been prepared by: Montréal International