Services

Everything IP, end to end

From the first idea sketch to worldwide enforcement — one desk handles it all. Individual inventors, start-ups, SMEs, large corporations and research institutions, through every stage of the IP lifecycle.

Patents

Your invention is only as strong as the claims that protect it. We guide clients through every stage of patent protection:

  • Reviewing your products and services to identify patentable opportunities
  • Conducting patent searches and assessing the patentability of innovations
  • Drafting patent applications in fields ranging from AI and software to photonics, telecommunications, medical devices and clean energy
  • Filing and prosecuting applications in Canada, the United States and internationally, through a trusted global network of local agents
  • Building, structuring and managing global patent portfolios
  • Preparing patentability, freedom-to-operate, validity and infringement opinions

Trademarks & Brand Protection

Your brand is often your most valuable asset — and the one competitors imitate first. We protect it end to end:

  • Reviewing your business name, product names, logos, slogans, trade dress and packaging to identify every protectable brand element
  • Conducting clearance searches in Canada and target markets before you commit to a name — the cheapest trademark problem is the one you avoid
  • Filing and prosecuting trademark applications through to registration, in Canada, the United States and worldwide
  • Structuring global brand portfolios: choosing between national filings and the Madrid Protocol, sequencing markets to match your expansion plan, and consolidating scattered registrations under a coherent ownership structure
  • Defending and asserting your marks in oppositions, cancellation and expungement proceedings
  • Running watch services so you learn about conflicting applications while they can still be stopped cheaply
  • Coordinating anti-counterfeiting programs — investigations, customs recordals and enforcement raids — through a trusted network of agents in high-risk markets

Brand Strategy & Portfolio Structuring

A registration is a tool; a portfolio is a strategy. We help brand owners think bigger:

  • Brand architecture: aligning house marks, product marks and sub-brands so each layer of your naming system is protected — and none cannibalizes another
  • Global structuring: deciding what to file, where and when — balancing Madrid Protocol efficiency against national-filing strength, and prioritizing markets by revenue, manufacturing and counterfeit risk
  • Ownership & licensing hygiene: holding-company structures, intra-group licenses and recordals that keep registrations valid, enforceable and tax-efficient
  • Portfolio audits: finding the gaps (unregistered marks in active markets, lapsed renewals, wrong owners of record) and the dead weight (registrations you pay to maintain but never use)
  • Brand value events: due diligence and portfolio preparation for financing rounds, acquisitions and franchise programs

Industrial Designs

The look of a product can matter as much as how it works. We help you:

  • Identify where design protection applies to your products
  • Prepare, file and prosecute design applications through to registration
  • Build and manage global industrial design portfolios, with monetization and enforcement support

IP Strategy & Portfolio Management

Protection without strategy wastes money. We align your IP with your business by:

  • Conducting IP audits and due diligence for universities, corporations and SMEs
  • Structuring and managing global patent, trademark and design portfolios
  • Drafting custom internal IP policies for institutions and companies
  • Running ideation and patent-mining sessions with inventors and engineering teams to surface protectable innovations

Licensing & Transactions

IP creates value when it moves. We help you commercialize by:

  • Negotiating and drafting licensing agreements for granted patents and pending applications
  • Preparing technology licensing, non-disclosure and settlement agreements
  • Advising on commercialization, market penetration and market dominance strategies
  • Supporting IP-focused commercial deals and transactions

Enforcement & Disputes

Rights are only as strong as your willingness to defend them. We support you through:

  • Trademark oppositions, cancellation and expungement proceedings
  • Patent and trademark infringement and validity assessments and claim charts
  • Strategic advice on contentious matters, working with litigation counsel where needed
  • Anti-counterfeiting programs, investigations and enforcement coordination across international markets
Start Anywhere

Not sure which service you need?

Most clients don’t arrive with a legal category in mind — they arrive with an idea, a product or a problem. Start there, and we’ll map the right protection strategy together.

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