MLT Lawyers Practicing
in this Area Include:

Danny Anderson
Chris Woodland
Chika Onwuekwe
Cris Shirritt

MLT's Intellectual Property Practice Group offers a broad range of legal services to help you protect and licence your intellectual property. Whether you are involved in the creation, use, licensing, acquisition or protection of intellectual property rights, our IP lawyers provide practical advice to help you secure patent, copyright, trade-mark and industrial design registrations in Canada and around the world.

MLT's intellectual property experience spans a range of industries that includes, among others, entertainment, technology, travel, hotels, agriculture and manufacturing.

On the biotechnology front we have considerable experience with plant breeders' rights that dates back to the proclamation of the Plant Breeders' Rights Act. We are well-versed in licencing and registration as well as dispute resolution. As a matter of interest, our lawyers were the first to obtain a judgment under the Plant Breeders' Rights Act.

Our core IP services include:

Confidential Information / Trade Secrets

• Drafting agreements and creating programs for the protection of your most sensitive information to help preserve your organization's competitive advantage.

Trade-marks

• Searching and opinions relating to registration of word, design, certification or public authority / official marks and distinguishing guises;
• Preparation and filing of applications for registration;
• Opposition proceedings before the Trade-mark Opposition Board;
• Licensing, assignment and franchising agreements;
• Infringement and passing-off opinions;
• Trademark enforcement and defence;
• Renewals and expungement (removal) applications.

Copyright

• Searching;
• Preparation, filing and prosecution of applications for registration;
• Infringement opinions;
• Copyright enforcement and defence;
• Licensing of literary (including software), dramatic and musical works;
• Assignment and sale of copyright and copyright protected works.

Patents

• Prior art (patentability) searching;
• Licensing and assignments;
• Although not patent agents, we have provided advice and assistance to inventors in the preparation, filing and prosecution of patent applications;
• Close working relationships with patent agents, both domestic and international.

Industrial Designs

• Searching and availability opinions;
• Preparation, filing and prosecution of applications for registration;
• Licensing and assignment.