Paula Clancy Elected as IPIC President for 2023-2024 Term IPIC is thrilled to announce Paula Clancy as our newly elected President for the 2023 to 2024 term! Paula brings a...

June 21, 2023, marked an important milestone in the path towards reconciliation as the federal government issued an action plan for the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (“the UN Declaration Act”). The UN Declaration Act requires the federal government to work in consultation and cooperation with Indigenous peoples to identify the measures necessary to ensure that federal laws are consistent with UNDRIP, and to develop an action plan for achieving the objectives of UNDRIP. The action plan is an important step in upholding and implementing the rights of Indigenous peoples in Canada.

The Peter W. McBurney Memorial Award for Professional Excellence is given to an intellectual property (IP) professional in Canada; an IP Agent and/or Lawyer, and member of Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) who has demonstrated excellence in their practice during the past year in the successful prosecution of a landmark patent or trademark property, the prosecution or defense of a legal action where the result has a significant, positive effect on Canadian IP policy and/or who has made an extraordinary contribution to the IP profession.