Patents
Where protection meets performance
Secure, scale, and extend the value of your inventions with Canada’s foremost patent practice.
Innovation is not optional. It fuels growth, shapes valuation, and defines competitive advantage. Whether you are developing a life-saving therapy, refining advanced manufacturing processes, or scaling an AI-driven platform, the way you protect, enforce, and commercialize your intangible assets determines how far and how fast you grow.
For more than 125 years, we have led the Canadian market across the full patent lifecycle, with more patents filed with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office than other full-service firm. Combining global scale, technical skill, and cross-disciplinary strength in a way other firms can’t replicate, we help the world’s most ambitious organizations turn bright ideas into protected assets and lasting commercial impact.
Take innovation further
Through decades of market shifts, economic cycles, and legal change, our practice has remained a constant. Today, as the IP services market enters another period of transformation, we continue to provide stability, clarity, and consistency, giving clients the confidence that their portfolio will be managed without interruption by a team built on a legacy of IP leadership.
Here’s what sets us apart:
Market-leading: We are consistently ranked as a top-tier firm for the country’s most complex, high-value patent matters by Chambers, Legal 500, IAM Patent 1000, and Managing IP. These independent rankings reflect our market standing and assure clients that their innovations are supported by Canada’s premier patent team.
Full-service advantage: Patents routinely surface in transactions, regulatory pathways, financing opportunities, competitive dynamics, and dispute posture, often at the same time. Our integrated approach brings those connections into focus early so every patent decision is made with your wider business context in view.
Seamless global protection: With more than 20 offices worldwide, including in major business, innovation, and litigation centres, we oversee global patent portfolios and manage cross-border disputes across one aligned and integrated team, reducing friction and giving you stronger control across jurisdictions.
R&D ready: With advanced degrees and professional backgrounds in computer science, engineering, medicine, and biochemistry, our patent lawyers and agents bring technical fluency and deep sector insight to every engagement. That depth means more durable patents, stronger claims, and a clearer view of potential challenges.
“Patents are not passive protections. They are active tools for shaping markets, influencing negotiations, and securing long-term advantage. That level of impact calls for more than legal expertise; it requires strategy, foresight, and experience at the highest level.”
— Dr. Chris Bown, Practice Group Leader, Patents
Tailored services from idea to impact
As a full-service law firm built on a foundation of IP expertise, we serve our clients across the full lifecycle of innovation, from market clearance and initial drafting and filing to complex enforcement matters through to the management and monetization of large international portfolios. Explore how we help:
Patent prosecution and portfolio building
From high-volume filings to complex, multi-jurisdictional portfolios, we help clients build and manage IP assets that hold up under scrutiny and support long-term strategy. Our prosecution and portfolio management work is grounded in subject matter fluency, commercial and sector focus, and a clear understanding of how patent rights create value over time.
Commercialization, licensing, and transactions
Patent litigation
Clearance, mining, and portfolio intelligence
Lifecycle management of brand-side pharmaceutical products
Trade secrets
Client work
Patent litigation
Patent litigation
Patent litigation
Patent litigation
Cross-border acquisitions
Cross-border acquisitions
