Fiona Legere
Canada Guide 2025
Band 5 : Intellectual Property: Litigation
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About
Provided by Fiona Legere
Practice Areas
Fiona is a dynamic litigator who provides strategic advice on intellectual property (IP) matters to businesses in the life sciences, telecommunications and technology industries. She advises on IP strategy, patent and Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) proceedings, and regulatory, trademark and copyright issues. Fiona has a significant trial and appellate litigation practice, focusing almost exclusively on complex commercial intellectual-property litigation.
Fiona is a trusted advisor to a number of the world’s largest pharmaceutical and technology companies. She has managed and coordinated multi-jurisdictional patent enforcement actions and successfully acted as counsel in groundbreaking patent cases, including the first biologics case and non-practising entity (NPE) case in Canada.
Fiona has a record of success in many significant cases before the Ontario Superior Court, Ontario Court of Appeal, the Federal Court of Canada, and the Federal Court of Appeal.
Career
Ontario bar, 2011
Professional Memberships
Fiona is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC), the Law Society of Ontario (LSO), the Ontario Bar Association (OBA) and the Canadian Bar Association (CBA).
Chambers Review
Canada
Fiona Legere is an experiencedIP litigator with notable expertise in patent litigation, where she has acted for major clients in the pharmaceutical and telecoms sectors. She is based in Toronto.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Fiona is a highly capable litigator with a very deep appreciation and knowledge of the challenges faced by pharmaceutical and biotech companies."
"She is extremely bright and well respected by judges."
"Fiona is a highly capable litigator with a very deep appreciation and knowledge of the challenges faced by pharmaceutical and biotech companies."
"She is extremely bright and well respected by judges."