How can your notary help you ... regarding intellectual property?

You are an entrepreneur and you are marketing an exclusive product? You are an author and you wonder if your works are protected or if it can be protected? You are the designer or owner of rights in a software? You want to protect the contents of source codes of this software as well as your rights in these source codes? You are well known and you must protect your rights in your image? You have employees and you have to protect the sensitive data of your business?

If you asked yourself one of these questions, your notary - trade-mark agent can inform you on the law of intellectual property, how to better understand this law and how to protect the fruits of your labor.

Your notary will thus inform you on the elements to be known in order to be aware of what is a trademark, how to register it, with which organization and for what period of time.

Your notary will answer your questions on copyright, on the works likely to be protected, on the organization that protects them in Canada? Who is the owner of the copyright? Is it possible to assign your copyright?

Your notary will allow you to discover the elements to be considered when you contemplate the deposit of your source codes with a third party, the depositary, what form the deposit must take and what documents must accompany the source codes entrusted to the depositary. Your notary will also inform you on the importance of escrow for your source codes.