SERVICES

Intellectual Property

Your creative ideas require expert protection. Whether you are a new business growing or you are a large multinational company or a non-profit organization, protecting your intellectual property effectively means protecting your profit and shareholder value.

Your Intellectual Property protection and enforcement strategy should be as sophisticated as and align with any other strategic consideration in your business; it should not only protect your intellectual property assets effectively, but also be the future proof and commercially sound.

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We pride ourselves on giving practical, no nonsense advice in relation to all elements of intellectual property - trademarks, copyright and design rights - and are dedicate to helping clients achieve a watertight intellectual property strategy. 


Our in-house trademark specialists are well equipped to service clients' national and international trademark and registered design portfolios.

  • Key Intellectual Property Services:

    • Intellectual Property Strategy
    • Trademark or brand name protection
    • Copyright
    • IT and Technology agreements

  • How we work with you?

    While based in Edmonton, Alberta, we act for businesses throughout Canada. Technology has enabled us to provide a high level of service to our clients whether they are local to our offices are not. Our legal advice can be given in many ways:


    • Over the telephone
    • Via video conferencing
    • In face-to-face meetings

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    We will talk through how you would like to be contacted and the best ways for us to meet in our early conversation with you.

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Trademark

Your Trademark is an important part of your brand protection strategy. Registering your trademark may seem like an easy process, but it is understanding the nuances of the classification system and carrying out comprehensive freedom to operate searches that really make your brand protection strategy sophisticated and will mean you avoid problems in the future.

  • How can we help with your trademarks

    • Conduct trademark clearance searches
    • Drafting and filing trademarks in Canada, US and internationally
    • Enforcing your trademark rights
    • Monitoring new applications for similar trademarks to you through our trademark-watching services
    • Portfolio management
    • Help in cases of trademark infringement - either as claimant or defendant

Copyright

Copyright subsists in the physical manifestation of your ideas and remains one of the most important rights a creative business owner can own because the wonderful thing about copyright is that it arises automatically in anything which is original, not copied from anywhere else and which has involved a degree of skill in its creation.

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This means that any original photographs, drawings, documents, product descriptions, artistic works, website content, articles etc., are all protected by copyright which will last for your lifetime plus 70 years.

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Copyright is owned by an individual or a company that creates it and and so it is important to assign it back to you where you have contracted a third party to create it for you.

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Copyright is infringed by anyone "copying" a substantial part of the original - and this can be measured both in terms of quantity and quality.

  • How can we help with your copyright

    • Helping you understand your rights
    • Licensing your copyright works
    • Sale and transfer of your copyright
    • Advising on infringement cases
    • Advice on using third-party assets
    • Help with protecting your digital assets such as websites, software and designs.
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