The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) is seeking comments from the public about governance models to administer a proposed draft code of conduct for the Intellectual Property (IP) profession. The consultation seeks to build on the Modernizing the IP Community report, which resulted in statutory protection for confidential communications between intellectual property agents and their clients.
Consultation on the draft code of conduct for the governance framework for IP agents closed on June 13, 2016. However, consultation on three proposed governance models is ongoing and comments will be received until July 29, 2016. The three possible governance models for the regulator include: an administrative agency model; a mixed-model; and a self-regulatory model.
The consultation announcement is available here.
The draft code of conduct is available here.
Summary by: Robert Dewald
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