Overview
When it comes to protecting your brands, your creations and your inventions, you need a trusted intellectual property law firm that will help you to maximise your assets and protect what makes them unique. Your business has invested precious time and resources in their development and they should remain yours to commercialise to their full potential.
Our global intellectual property (IP) practice spans offices worldwide and works across key jurisdictions to provide exceptional IP advice across the full life cycle of your IP rights including advertising and marketing, entertainment and sports, regulatory, patents, trademarks, copyright, design rights and related litigation and transactional work.
Delivering a complete range of IP services, our strength lies in technical excellence and international reach delivered with a collaborative approach. We offer an outstanding team of intellectual property lawyers who will support you wherever you operate around the globe. As your business grows and expands, there is often a desire to venture beyond a country's borders; our international experience allows us to advise businesses operating from locations around the world including the United States, Europe and Asia on the growth of their intangible assets."They have built a cohesive team where they complement one another. They communicate well and are very good at recommending others within the firm if there is other expertise that I require." Chambers Global
We help IP owners overcome complex obstacles and optimise new opportunities. Every step on the path to market presents different challenges for you and your business. Our IP lawyers will work with you to overcome those challenges by delivering practical, cost-effective legal advice focused on growing and protecting your business.
Our IP practice works as part of a full-service international law firm, allowing us to provide a comprehensive offering that seamlessly combines your IP interests with other facets of your organisation, developing a more holistic picture of your business objectives to ensure your success.
IP services in Canada
In Canada, we are recognised as the country's leading law firm across all facets of IP. Our award-winning group of IP professionals has earned a reputation as the go-to team for those seeking ironclad protection for their most valuable brands, innovations and other IP rights.
We file almost double the number of trademark applications in Canada compared with other firms and just over 12% of all patent applications. We act in more IP cases before the Federal Court than any other law firm in Canada and have appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada in several leading trademark, copyright and patent decisions.
We have extensive experience running enforcement and anti-counterfeiting programmes to ensure that our clients' brands maintain their valuable goodwill. In addition, our transactional IP practice, supported by the firm's full-service capabilities across our seven offices in Canada, is second to none.
Whether you are in need of support on trademarks, brands, designs, patent protection, trade secrets or copyright enforcement and IP litigation or help with navigating advertising, marketing, entertainment issues and product regulation, then you can rely on our team.
