Legal Services
- Strategic IP advice on the management of registrable and non-registrable IP assets, such as the interplay between managing company trade secrets and patents
- IP infringement dispute resolution services, such as mediated settlements
- Negotiating and drafting settlement agreements and effective cease and desist letters
- IP licensing and procurement strategies
- Due diligence on IP purchases or licensing agreements
- Infringement opinions
- Freedom to operate and validity opinions
- International IP portfolio management, including coordinating foreign contentious patent proceedings (opposition hearings, litigation, and/or arbitration)
- Customized IP ownership agreements, software license and service agreements, end-user license agreements, material transfer agreements and non-disclosure agreements
- Consulting on trade secret strategies and management
Reviewing and revising employment agreement and consulting contracts to ensure company’s IP ownership of IP developed by employees and contractors
Patent Services
- Patentability searches and opinions in the high tech, software, bio, chemical and mechanical fields
- Patent drafting, filing and prosecution services in the high tech, software, bio, chemical and mechanical fields
- International and Canadian patent application filing and prosecution
- Infringement and validity assessments
- Due diligence reviews of patent portfolios
- Invention mining advice for companies
- Advice and consultation on effective IP management and procurement strategies
- Patent portfolio management
Trademark Services
- Trademark branding strategies
- Canadian and International trademark clearance searches and opinions
- Canadian and international trademark filings, prosecution, registration and renewals
- Trademark monitoring and watch services
- Trademark licensing and assignments
- Opposition and cancellation proceedings
- Trademark portfolio management
Design Services
- Industrial design searching of Canadian and international databases
- Industrial design application preparation, filing and prosecution for any industrial product
- Industrial designs registrability opinions
- Industrial design infringement assessments
- Infringement dispute resolution
