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===How to get a patent===
You can [https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cipointernet-internetopic.nsf/eng/h_wr00001.html apply for a patent] by filing a patent application with the [http://www.cipo.gc.ca/ Canadian Intellectual Property Office] (CIPO). You have to pay the required fees. Your application must describe your invention in full and show you would put it into practice. The invention must meet patentability requirements, meaning that it is new and useful, and has inventive ingenuity.

The Patent Office will not review your application unless you ask them to. Within five years of filing the patent application, you must formally ask the CIPO to consider (or examine) your application. You must pay the examination fee.

About 18 months after you’ve paid this fee, a government patent examiner familiar with the subject matter will examine your application and decide if it meets the requirements for a patent. If the examiner has any objections to the application, they will issue an examiner’s report explaining why they are rejecting it. The applicant (or a patent agent they hire) must then respond within a certain time with arguments or amendments (or both) to support their application. The process can take one to four or more years before a patent is granted.

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Most applicants hire a registered patent agent or patent lawyer to help them with the application process. A list of registered patent agents is available from the [http://www.ic.gc.ca/cipo/pa-br/agents.nsf/pagents-eng?readform CIPO] and from the [https://ipic.ca/find-an-agent Intellectual Property Institute of Canada] (IPIC).
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