TECHNOLOGY & IP
The Brownlee LLP Technology and Intellectual Property Law Group offers responsive and thorough services to clients in the technology industries, including in the following areas:
- patent searching, freedom-to-use, and patent applications (prosecution) in Canada, the US, and abroad;
- trade-mark and industrial design searches and filings for Canada, the US, and abroad, performing due diligence of ownership and adequacy over existing mark portfolios, providing management and data access options for clients with mark portfolios;
- trade-mark oppositions, including appeals, and expungement actions;
- patent, trade-mark, copyright infringement, invention ownership, trade-secret, fiduciary duty and other related litigation matters;
- intellectual property commercial transactional work including licensing, joint ventures, re-organizations, purchase and sale of assets or shares, trade-secret protection agreements, information technology sourcing agreements, design and development agreements, software development and distribution agreements, employment agreements, confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements;
- wrongful use of confidential information litigation cases.
The Brownlee Technology Law Group applies innovative thinking to facilitate and help you leverage your business opportunities and to forge practical solutions to your conflicts. We have the breadth and depth of experience to provide you with strong representation across a wide range of technology and intellectual property issues.
The Brownlee Technology Law Group has launched ipblog.ca, the first Calgary-based law blog to focus on intellectual property law, including patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret and internet law in Canada. This blog will focus on developments in Canadian intellectual property law, including practical information and commentary on business issues, technology commercialization, out-sourcing and developments in the law.
Here below are the practice managers for this legal discipline.
| Edmonton Lawyers | Calgary Lawyers |
| RAYMOND G. (GUY) MIKI | DENNIS K. YASUI, Q.C. |
| HAVELOCK B. MADILL, Q.C. | GLEN B. SCOTT, Q.C. |
| THOMAS E. MALYSZKO | |
| NEIL F. KATHOL CHAIR | |
| RICHARD P.W. STOBBE |