Intellectual Property Law

Intellectual property is the life-blood of any knowledge-based company. We understand the strategic importance of IP in your business and we can not only help you protect and enforce your intellectual property rights but also devise commercialization strategies and agreements for deriving value from your R&D and intellectual capital assets. We can also assist clients in resolving IP disputes without resorting to litigation. 

  • IP counseling (patents, copyright, trademarks, trade secrets, industrial designs)
  • IP protection and commercialization strategy
  • Trade secret and confidentiality agreements and advice
  • Freedom to operate opinions and IP due diligence reviews
  • Validity and infringement opinions in anticipation of litigation
  • Filing and prosecuting trade-mark applications for domestic and foreign applicants
  • Filing and prosecuting patent applications for domestic and foreign applicants
  • Employment-related IP matters
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Testimonial

"We found Stephanie to be very responsive. She performed high quality work under very tight deadlines and ensured that our trademark needs were met, both locally and globally. She worked with us to ensure that we were properly advised, guided and protected on our current and future requirements." 

Mikhail Kassam
President, Midas Safety Inc. 


Experience

  • Arshia was IP counsel to a group of affiliated venture-backed (US $100 m. from leading Silicon Valley venture funds) optical communications companies, on complex IP ownership and inter-company trade secrets matters

  • Stephanie served as Interim Counsel, Patents and Trademarks, for Novopharm Ltd., one of Canada’s largest pharmaceutical companies 


Resources

Watch Arshia’s Lecture on Intellectual Property Strategy at the MaRS Discovery District here.

The process of filing a trademark application in Canada and successfully managing it through to registration is outlined in the attached flowchart.