Our Services
Your innovations are of upmost importance to us. Protecting them is the first step to ensuring your business' success. We want to understand what your business objectives are so that we can work with you to develop an intellectual property strategy that is right for you.
Our firm practices exclusively in the area of Intellectual Property. It is all we do and we do it well! Our services include:
Patents
Litigation
Trademarks
Industrial Design
Copyright
Licensing & IP Transactions
Trade-Secret Programs
Due Diligence
Regulatory Practice Group
Strategic Analysis
Clean & Sustainable Technologies
Plant Breeders Rights
Patents
Our strength is working with our clients to develop a strategic patent portfolio that works with both their short term needs and long term business goals to create a portfolio that is a strong business asset. We offer a broad range of services with respect to Canadian, United States and worldwide patents, such as:
- Strategy development for the protection of inventions that will integrate with your business goals
- Drafting, filing and processing patent applications
- Preliminary patentability searches
- Full prior art searches and freedom to operate opinions
- Portfolio management
- Full range of patent prosecution service levels
- Infringement and validity opinions
- Regulatory and compliance guidance
- Patent formality reviews and patent audits
- Verification of ownership and chain of title issues
- Monitoring of competing technologies
- Licensing
- Mediation and arbitration
Trademarks
A solid brand is one of the most important tools for a successful marketing of your business. Likewise, it’s imperative your trademarks are protected and vigorously enforced in order to preserve your brand reputation.
Our experienced trademarks team, comprised of litigators and trademark agents, has the wealth of knowledge and innovative skill set to maximize your trademark protection and fully enforce your trademark rights. We counsel clients on the selection, protection, and enforcement of company names, brand names, logos and taglines for Canadian and worldwide markets, including filing, prosecution, registration and licensing.
Our lawyers have successfully enforced trademark protection before all levels of Court including the Supreme Court of Canada, Federal Court of Appeal and Federal Court. We also caused the Canadian Trademarks office to amend their practices in a land mark decision.
Strategic Analysis
We strive to understand your overall business objectives and craft our legal services to compliment those.
The better we understand your business objectives, the better we can offer sound strategic analysis to achieve business success.
Our intellectual property strategy
