Whether you’re an established business or a start-up company, you know how important it is to leverage your competitive advantage through the unique products and services you offer. We will help you protect those products and services that distinguish you from your competition. Don’t take chances with your inventions, logos, slogans, trade secrets, artistic works, or other intellectual property – make sure that it is all properly protected with patents, trademarks, and copyrights so that your business may benefit. In today’s competitive global marketplace, it’s more important than ever to protect your creative assets with sound and equally creative legal strategies. Let us help you with this and more.

In our intellectual property practice, we advise foreign and domestic clients on the protection of their intellectual property in Canada and abroad. In close consultation with our clients, we design and implement international trademark filing strategies, with the goal of maximizing the cost-effective protection of intellectual property assets in key jurisdictions. We negotiate and draft license agreements and technology transfer agreements, prosecute trademark and copyright applications, and conduct due diligence on intellectual property matters in corporate, financial, and other transactions. We also counsel our clients on the preservation of trade secrets. In cooperation with outside patent counsel, we assist our clients with the filing and prosecution of patent applications. In addition, we represent our clients in domain name dispute resolution.

We provide progressive legal and business counsel to clients regarding:

Trade Secret Law

• Trade Secret Protection
• Trade Secret Agreements
• Trade Secret Theft Litigation

Trademarks and Unfair Competition

• Trademark Registration
• Trademark Licensing / Use by Third Parties
• Trademark Infringement Arbitration
• Unfair Competition Litigation
• Trademark Dispute Lawsuit

Copyrights

• Copyright Registration
• Copyright Licensing
• Copyright Infringement Litigation
• Copyright Dispute Arbitration