Trademarks protect your brand — one of your most valuable business assets. A trademark is a distinctive sign (a word, a design, a symbol, a combination of these, etc.) used as a commercial source identifier to distinguish your goods and services from those of others in the marketplace. Securing a registration grants you exclusive rights to use your trademark in association with those goods and services.

Our professionals are registered trademark agents with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) and members of the College of Patent Agents and Trademark Agents (CPATA).

Copyright protects original literary (including software), dramatic, musical or artistic works, providing the owner with an exclusive right to produce, reproduce, publish or perform such works. Registering your copyright creates a statutory legal presumption of ownership and validity.

An industrial design protects the visual features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament—or any combination of these features—applied to a finished article made by hand, tool or machine. The design must have features that appeal to the eye. To be eligible for registration, your design must be original. Registration is mandatory to benefit from legal protection. Securing a registration provides exclusive rights to make, import, offer for sale, sell, or rent any article in respect of which the design has been applied.

We defend and enforce your IP rights before all courts, including the Superior Court of Quebec, the Quebec Court of Appeal, the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal (Canada).

Drafting and negotiation of contracts allowing you to adequately structure and protect your IP, to maximize its value and extract its full potential.

Get the real market value of your IP assets. Patents and other IP are intangible assets that can be valued using industry-recognized techniques. A Certified Patent Valuation Analyst (CPVA) is the most appropriate professional to analyze its strengths and weaknesses. For any forthcoming transaction involving IP assets (sale, purchase, license), understanding the value of the IP is essential to ascertain the appropriate price range. The valuation process further aids in developing arguments aimed at negotiating an advantageous transaction. Contact us to estimate how much your IP is worth.

Plant Breeders’ Rights (PBR) are a form of intellectual property allowing the protection of new varieties of plants, conferring to its holder exclusive rights on the sale, production, reproduction, import, export, storage and packaging of propagating material (seeds, cuttings, etc.) of its variety. An application for a PBR certificate must be filed with the Plant Breeders’ Rights Office (PBRO) at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.