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IP Professionals, Got Talent? Do you play in a band? Sing in the shower? Have a secret (or not so secret) talent you’d love to share with your IP colleagues? Hosted by the IPIC Foundation Committee, in support of the Patent & Trademark Institute Educational Foundation (PTIEF).

IPIC wishes to extend its congratulations and recognition to the members who successfully passed the Trademark Administrator Exam last week.

IPIC wishes to extend its congratulations and recognition to the members who successfully passed the Patent Administrator Exam on November 24, 2021. This 4-course online program and qualifying examination encompassed the Patent Foundations and Lifecycle, Preparing and Filing a Patent Application, Patent Examination and Issuance, as well as Patent Maintenance Abandonment and Transfer.

We are excited to announce that Leandra Keren of Queen's University and Lindsay Pacquette of Osgoode Hall Law School are this year's winners of Canada's IP Writing Challenge!

The Patent and Trademark Institute Education Foundation is a registered charity managed by IPIC that awards prizes to the candidates who obtain the highest marks in the patent and trademark agent exams.

IPIC’s Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Jenna Wilson is this year's recipient of the Institute’s Outstanding Contribution Award. Jenna received the award on October 14 for having gone above and beyond expectations of our volunteers on IPIC’s response to development of regulations for the College of Patent Agents and Trademark Agents, as well as two separate comprehensive responses to consultations to amend the Patent Rules, among other initiatives.

The Roger T. Hughes Future Leader Award is given to a young professional/future leader member of IPIC who has made significant contributions to an IPIC Committee, Community, or other substantial IPIC initiative during the past year. The individual will have demonstrated significant leadership, commitment, and dedication to increasing awareness of IPIC along with the value and future, of the IP profession in Canada. IPIC’s Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Meika Ellis is the first recipient of the Institute’s Roger T. Hughes Future Leader Award. Meika received the award on October 14 for having made significant contributions to IPIC’s Indigenous IP Committee.

The Board of Directors of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) is pleased to announce the election of Louis-Pierre Gravelle as its new President and Chair of the Board for the 2021-2022 term, effective September 29th, 2021. The announcement was made during IPIC's virtual AGM earlier today. Louis-Pierre previously served as IPIC’s Vice-President from 2020-2021, its Secretary from 2019-2020 and its Treasurer from 2018-2019.

At IPIC’s Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, September 29, 2021, members voted in a new IPIC Board of Directors for 2021-2022. The Board is composed of nine members: four officers, the immediate past president and four directors. To take into account the diversity of roles existing in the profession, the Board is comprised of IP lawyers, patents agents, trademark agents, litigators and corporate practitioners.

IPIC wishes to extend its sincere congratulations to our member Trent Horne on his appointment to Prothonotary of the Federal Court. The announcement was made late last week by the Honourable David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada under the judicial application process established in 2016. This process emphasizes transparency, merit, and the diversity of the Canadian population, and will continue to ensure the appointment of jurists who meet the highest standards of excellence and integrity.

IPIC wishes to extend its congratulations and recognition to the 12 applicants who successfully passed the first-ever Patent Administrator Exam on June 16, 2021.

The Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) is pleased to announce an important milestone has been reached in a decades long effort to establish a College of Patent Agents and Trademark Agents (CPATA) to regulate the agency profession in Canada. Today, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) published the final regulations to guide the work of the CPATA within Canada Gazette Part II.