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Timestamp: 2019-04-26 12:07:56+00:00

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[/em]Bereskin & Parr was founded in 1965 by David M. Rogers and Daniel R. Bereskin and has steadily grown, today employing 63 fully licensed lawyers. Its status as one of Canada’s largest IP boutiques is reflected in its roster of big-name clients, including Tim Hortons Inc., Canada Goose Inc., Kobo Inc., McCain Foods Ltd., Unilever PLC, and Gap Inc. The firm has worked on one of the most prominent patent cases of the past year, Nova Chemical Co. ats. Dow Chemical Corp., as well as acting for a major international pharmaceutical company on patent prosecution work.
[/em]Founded nearly 20 years ago, Deeth Williams Wall has grown from seven lawyers to 22, covering all aspects of IP prosecution, commercialization, and enforcement. The firm has recently acted for an oilfield services company, a Toronto-based software company, a provincial government, and a major inter-bank data network. It provides day-to-day trademark prosecution and enforcement advice for major food, chemical, automotive, and retail companies. It was counsel to Cobalt in Novartis Pharmaceuticals Canada Inc. v. Cobalt Pharmaceuticals Co.
[/em]Dimock Stratton was founded with three lawyers in 1994. It now has seven partners and 10 associates, all with science or engineering backgrounds. Its lawyers have been involved in one in every four patent trials in Canada in the last 25 years. The firm has been counsel on major intellectual property law cases at the Supreme Court of Canada. Recently, it has worked on patent infringement actions for Dow Chemical Co., Arctic Cat Inc., and Magna Powertrain. Other clients include Sandoz Canada Inc., Procter & Gamble Co., and Easton Sports Canada Inc.
[/em]Macera & Jarzyna is the sister law firm to Moffat & Co., a Canadian patent and trademark agency. The 14-lawyer firm was founded in 1978 by John Macera and Andy Jarzyna, largely focusing on trademark work. Over the years, the focus has shifted more to patent work, representing clients including Molson Coors Brewing Co., Spin Master Ltd., Mark’s Work Wearhouse Ltd., BlackBerry Ltd., Porsche, and Calfrac Well Services Ltd. It has represented clients before tribunals, including the Trademark Opposition Board and Patent Appeal Board, the federal and Ontario courts, and the Supreme Court of Canada.
“Professional, prompt, reliable,” says a senior lawyer at a full-service Ontario law firm who gave the firm his vote.
Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala is Western Canada’s largest independent intellectual property law firm. Established in 1977, the Vancouver firm’s 20 lawyers practise law in British Columbia and are registered as patent and trademark agents with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Clients include Dolby Laboratories Inc., EnWave Corp., Medtronic Co., BC Cancer Agency, Simon Fraser University, and Computer Packages.
Ridout & Maybee was founded in 1893 by John G. Ridout — author of the first Canadian textbook on patents — and James E. Maybee, who would become the first president of what is today the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada. Now with 33 lawyers, prominent clients include Accenture, BlackBerry Ltd., Chrysler Group LLC, S.C. Johnson & Son Inc., Samsung Ltd., Swarovski, and Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. Recent patent infringement actions include acting for ECI in Electrical Components Canada Inc. (ECI) v. Phillips & Temro Industries Ltd., and for AirTurn in Canplas Industries Ltd. v. Airturn Products Inc.
The firm stems from a patent and trademark agency founded in 1892 by the Marion brothers, who were both engineers. Raymond Robic joined in 1917, adding his name to the letterhead in 1932 and growing the firm into the specialist, 25-lawyer boutique it is today. In May 2011, the firm opened a new office in Quebec City, with a team of lawyers who jumped over from a large national firm. It works for clients in the cosmetics, luxury goods, petro-chemical, entertainment, technology, and food-and-retail sectors.
Having celebrated its 50th year in 2013, Shapiro Cohen was founded in 1963 by Norman Shapiro. It has grown by forming a group of firms, merging with Mantha & Associates, Pascal and Associates, and Baker McLachlen. The firm serves clients in all areas of industry but specializes in advising companies in the field of new and emerging technologies. It acted on the landmark Federal Court case involving MGM’s roaring lion sound mark, which resulted in sound marks being registerable in Canada. The firm has seven fully licensed lawyers and its clients include Asten Johnson, Giant Tiger Stores Ltd., Johnson & Johnson Inc., Virgin Enterprises Ltd., and Hitachi Ltd.
A 2012 re-branding saw Sim Lowman Ashton & McKay LLP, the partnership of lawyers, and Sim & McBurney, a partnership of patent and trademark agents, become known jointly as Sim IP Practice. Formed out of McCarthy Tétrault LLP’s IP practice group, Sim IP has 10 lawyers and represents global corporations such as The Walt Disney Co., Volkswagen Group, Xerox Corp., Chevron Corp., T-Mobile Inc., and The Coca-Cola Co. It has played a key role in developing Canadian IP case law, acting for Monsanto in the Supreme Court of Canada’s 2004 case Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser, and Kraft in the top court’s 2007 case Euro-Excellence Inc. v. Kraft Canada Inc.
The firm has 80 lawyers at four offices covering three provinces across the country, having grown out of the patent agency Fetherstonhaugh in 1906; the two are still in close union. The firm is Canada’s largest practising exclusively in intellectual property and technology law. It successfully represented Imperial Tobacco Ltd. in Marlboro Canada Ltd. and Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd. v. Philip Morris Products S.A., the plaintiffs in Bodum USA Inc. and PI Design AG v. Trudeau Corp., and AstraZeneca in Mylan Pharmaceuticals ULC v. AstraZeneca Canada Inc., AstraZeneca U.K. Ltd. and The Minister of Health.
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