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IP licensing

We work with our business law colleagues to advise clients on their intellectual property rights as buyers and sellers in corporate mergers, acquisitions and divestitures including intellectual property valuation and due diligence. 

Our lawyers also frequently advise on technology and intellectual property licensing agreements. Members of our firm help our clients use such licensing agreements as growth tools for emerging technologies, such as software, electronics, business methods, chemicals, mechanics, medicine, pharmacology and biotechnology.

We apply our firm's extensive business law and IP resources to all aspects of technology transfer and commercial transactions involving intellectual property, including research and development, licensing, outsourcing, marketing, merchandising, distribution and international trade. Our lawyers use intellectual property audits to confirm the status of clients' IP ownership and ensure their ability to acquire valuable new intellectual property assets. Our audits safeguard IP rights by reviewing the status of a client's entire portfolio of patents, copyrights and trade marks to document proper identification and maintenance. If our audit identifies actual or potential problems, we can address them before the issue becomes critical to the completion of a deal.




Publications / Presentations
October 2011
good faith in patent prosecution, a Canadian perspective
intellectual property bulletin
September 2011
Are You Ready For Your Close-up? Ten Things To Think About When Negotiating Sponsorship Agreements
Intellectual Property Bulletin
July 2011
knockout blow to knockoffs
intellectual property bulletin
June 2011
U.S. Supreme Court decides case brought by i4i against Microsoft
Intellectual Property Bulletin