My Background and Focus

Randy Marusyk is co-managing partner of the firm and has been certified as a specialist in all areas of Canadian Intellectual Property Law (Patent/Trademark/Copyright) by the Law Society of Upper Canada. Randy specializes in designing strategic intellectual property portfolios in light of client’s business and marketplace needs. He has extensive experience in drafting and prosecuting a variety of patent applications before the Canadian and United States Patent Offices, as well as coordinating their prosecution worldwide. Randy has particular expertise in drafting and prosecuting a wide range of patentable technologies, bioinformatics, business methods, medical devices, medical equipment, gaming, consumer products, personal care products and environmental products.

He also designs and oversees client litigation strategies for patent, trademark and copyright cases before the Federal Court of Canada as well as provincially based Superior Courts. He has extensive experience in negotiating and drafting complex licensing, research & development, and other technology related agreements. In addition, Randy coordinates the firm’s IP audit team, which evaluates the status and strength of an IP portfolio and provides clients with advice with respect to strategy and IP aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

Randy is a Registered Canadian Patent and Trademark Agent and also has limited recognition to represent Canadians in patent and trademark matters before the USPTO. He is a founding member of the firm and serves on the firm’s Board of Directors. In addition to being on the Editorial Board of the Biotechnology Law Report, he has published dozens of articles on intellectual property law. Randy also teaches a course entitled “Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals and Intellectual Property” in the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa and has lectured at the Franklin Pierce Law Center.