Intellectual Property

About

Provided by Torys LLP

Business-minded counsel supported by wide-ranging technical skills and industry savvy make us trusted partners to our clients in the management of their intellectual property assets and regulatory affairs in Canada, the U.S. and internationally.

We rigorously focus on our clients’ business to guide them through every dimension of their IP rights: across transactions, IP agreements and disputes, we deliver strategic and effective solutions. We are recognized for our broad technical skills and legal acumen on the creation, acquisition, registration, portfolio management, exploitation, enforcement and protection of our clients’ IP rights—as well as in responding effectively to the IP rights and claims of others.

Many of our practitioners have advanced scientific or engineering degrees in various disciplines, resulting in scientific fluency that allows us to transform complex concepts into tailored and practical opinions and persuasive advocacy.

Our litigators are adept at both working with our clients' technical specialists and supplementing those resources with leading, independent technical experts. We have acted in over 100 cases in the Federal Court of Canada involving pharmaceutical and medical device patents, including data protection cases, PM(NOC) cases, PMPRB cases, infringement and impeachment actions, patent listing disputes and section 8 damages cases. We also regularly deal with novel copyright issues, involving complex facts and difficult issues of law.