Patents and patent applications are territorially limited. Your Canadian patent application does not provide protection outside the borders of Canada. A Canadian patent application can be used to form the priority basis for filing in many other international jurisdictions, and there are a number of different international filing strategies which can be employed to streamline an international patent process if broadly-based geographic protection is desired.

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