The following is a detailed list of Canadian patent documentation held within the British Library's intellectual property collection.
Intellectual Property stock locations
IP Open Access: Always available in the Business & IP Centre
IP Reserve South: In secure storage, can be delivered to the Centre in typically 1-3 hours
IP Reserve North: In secure storage, can be delivered to the Centre in 48+ hours. If a nine-digit number is shown under "location", these can be ordered for use in the Centre by registered readers through Explore the British Library. Please type the number into the Explore search box to rapidly retrieve the record.
IP Reserve Material cannot be ordered for same-day delivery after 16:00. Sometimes the service may not be available all day on Saturday due to staffing. Some Reserve Material may not be available at times due to stock movements. Please contact us before your visit to check.
Authority
Canadian Intellectual Property Office
| Document | Range | Medium | Location |
Patent specifications | |||
1990 - to date | |||
| Applications (A specs): | 1999 - 2011 | CD/DVD | IP Reserve North |
| 2000001 - 2269842 (some gaps) | Microform | IP Reserve North | |
| Granted (C specs): | 2000 - 2011 | CD/DVD | IP Reserve North |
| 2000001 - 2271931 | Microform | IP Reserve North | |
1869 - 1990 | |||
| Granted: | 1051601 - end of series | Microform | IP Reserve North |
| 445931 - 1051600 | Paper | IP Reserve North (015268649) | |
| (1 - 445931 are not held. Illustrated abridgements were published in the official journal from patent number 1645, published in 1873, onwards) | |||
1824 - 1869 | |||
| Specifications | 1 - 489 | Paper | IP Reserve South |
| (These specifications are very short, often only a single paragraph. They were collected in two bound volumes, one for 1824 - 1849 and one for 1849 - 1854, each of which contains a name index and alphabetical title list for those which it contains. The remaining specifications in the series, 490 - 3325, are not held.) | |||
Patent databases | |||
| Canadian Patents Database (status and specifications) | bibliographic data 1869 - to date full documents 1920 - to date | Online | |
| Canadian Patents 1869 - 1919 (scanned manuscript specification, full claimed date range currently not available) | 1869 - 1894 | Online | |
Indexes and abstracts | |||
| Canadian Patent Office Record (abridgements in numerical order, name and title indexes bound in until 1904 | 1873 - 1976 | Paper | IP Reserve South |
| Canadian Patent Office Record Index (name indexes and, until 1967, alphabetical title lists) | 1905 - 1998 | Paper | IP Reserve South |
| List of Patents (includes first series 1824 - 1869 and second series until start of official journal in 1873) | 1824 - 1872 | Paper | IP Reserve South |
| Classified Patent Lists | 1869 - 1986 cumulated | Microform | IP Reserve North |
| Derwent World Patent Abstracts | 1975 - 1998 | Paper | IP Reserve North |
Official Journals | |||
| Canadian Patent Office Record | 1999 - to date | Online | |
| 1873 - 2003 | Paper | IP Reserve South | |
| Annual Index to CPOR (cross-reference of numbers and publication dates only) | 1999 to date | Online | |
Legal decisions | |||
| Institute of Canada Patent and Trade Mark Newsletter | 1967 - 1986 | Paper | IP Reserve South |
| (Main legal decision journal since 1952 is Canadian Patent Reporter, shelved in Business & IP Centre at (P) BM00 - E(1)) | |||
Miscellaneous patent publications | |||
| Annual Report | 2010 - to date | Online | |
| 1919 - 2002 (some gaps) | Paper | IP Reserve South | |
| Patent Classification Scheme | 1985, 1990 | Microform | IP Reserve North |
Trade Marks | |||
| Trade Mark Database | All registered 1979 - to date, all in force, some older expired marks | Online | |
| Trade Marks Journal | 1954 - 2000 | Paper | IP Reserve South |
| Directory of Canadian Trade Marks | 1995 | Paper | IP Reserve South |
| (Trade marks were included in the main official journal from 1888 to 1953.) | |||
Registered Designs | |||
| Industrial Designs Database | 1861 - to date | Online | |
| (Design information was included in the main official journal from 1900 to 1960) | |||
Old Newfoundland intellectual property system | |||
| Newfoundland Royal Gazette (includes patent notices) | 1904 - 1939 | Paper | IP Reserve South |
| Lists of Letters Patent | 1851 - 1951 | Paper | IP Reserve South |
| Lists of Trade Marks | 1890 - 1949 | Paper | IP Reserve South |
