Filing Requirements:
National Phase PCT Application:

• Power of Attorney (simply signed)

• Specification, claims and abstract in English or French 

• Formal drawings, if applicable (required on the day of filing)

• International Patent Classification (can be late filed)

• Assignment of Invention (can be late filed)

• Copy of Published International Application (can be filed later)

• Copy of International Search Report (can be filed later)

• Copy of International Preliminary Report on Patentability (can be filed later)

Patents of Invention (Non-PCT):

• Power of Attorney (simply signed) (required on the day of filing)

• Specification, claims and abstract in English or French 

• Formal drawings, if applicable (required on the day of filing) 

• Assignment of Invention (can be filed later) 

• Priority document with verified French translation (can be filed later)

Grant:

The term of a patent is twenty years from the filing date.

Renewal:

Renewal fees fall due at intervals of 5 years, the first being payable simultaneously with the application fee then on the 5th, 10th and 15th anniversaries of the filing date