Public Servants Inventions Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. P-32)

Marginal note:Duties of inventor

• 4 (1) Every public servant who makes an invention

  • (a) shall inform the appropriate minister of the invention and shall provide the minister with such information and documents with respect thereto as the minister requires;

  • (b) shall not file outside Canada an application for a patent in respect of the invention without the written consent of the appropriate minister; and

  • (c) shall, in any application in Canada for a patent in respect of the invention, disclose in his application that he is a public servant.

• Marginal note:Duties of Commissioner of Patents

  (2) If it appears to the Commissioner of Patents that an application for a patent relates to an invention made by a public servant, the Commissioner shall inform the appropriate minister of the application and give to the minister such information with respect thereto as the minister requires.