Intellectual Property

We offer cost-effective legal services tailored to maximize your intellectual property on both the strategic and transactional levels. Our diverse range of clients includes pioneers of information technology, as well as traditional corporations that either utilize technology in their operations, or hold significant intellectual property assets.

Registration

To take full advantage of intellectual property in Canada and internationally, it is often necessary to secure registration with appropriate government offices. We assist in obtaining patent, copyright, trade-mark, industrial design and integrated circuit topography registrations.

Contracts

We assist in contractual matters related to the commercialization of intellectual property including technology transfer or sharing agreements, license agreements, franchise agreements, purchase and sale of businesses involving intellectual property assets, and employment and non-competition agreements.

Audits

We perform intellectual property audits, including web site audits, which involve taking inventory of a business's intellectual property, detecting weaknesses and advising on strategies to properly protect and exploit intellectual property.

Financing

We assist clients who are obtaining financing by private or public means on the basis of their intellectual property and other more traditional assets.

Enforcement

Where a third party violates intellectual property rights, we assist clients to quickly and effectively obtain a favourable resolution using both the traditional court system and other alternative dispute resolution methods.

New Technologies

We assist our clients with issues arising out of new technological challenges provided by such things as social networking, cloud computing and mobile applications.

Associated Services

The intellectual property aspects of a business are often tied to other commercial issues. We provide a full range of legal services to businesses with intellectual property assets such as advice on taxation, employment, immigration, competition, corporate structuring, leasing and other general commercial matters.

Trade-Mark Prosecution and Enforcement

We assist clients in a wide range of industries to identify, register, protect and enforce their trade-mark rights locally, nationally and internationally.

Patents

We conduct audits and provide strategic advice on the patenting of products and services that are of commercial value.