Borden Ladner Gervais

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP is one of the leading national law firms in Canada and is a leader in intellectual property practice. Our Intellectual Property Group is responsible for over 47,000 patent applications and patents, over 37,000 trade-mark applications and registrations and over 3,000 industrial design applications and registrations.

What We Do

We can manage all your legal IP needs including:

• Patents and Trade-marks – from conception to commercialization
• Non-disclosure agreements (also known as confidentiality agreements)
• Licensing and Research agreements – drafting, reviewing and negotiation
• Legal opinions on patentability and freedom-to-operate
• Due diligence in reviewing your organization's IP assets
• IP litigation

Why Use Borden Ladner Gervais?

• We have experience working in academia with both technology transfer offices and faculty, and can help navigate the unique processes and challenges
• We understand the budgetary and timing constraints in the academic environment, and we can work within them
• We speak to researchers and inventors in their own language
• We understand technical products and processes; many of our IP professionals hold advanced scientific degrees, engineering degrees and advanced graduate degrees in the fields of biotechnology, chemistry, physics, electronics, electrical engineering, engineering physics, as well as PhDs in the respective fields of analytical chemistry, applied chemistry, genetics, nutrition & metabolism, plant biogenetics, oncology and telecommunications.
• We have 6 offices across Canada and in close proximity to universities and all major urban centres: Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Waterloo Region, Calgary and Vancouver.

Meeting Your Needs

We provide complimentary Educational IP Seminars and Workshops on all aspects of patenting, licensing and other IP legalities tailored to your needs and we have conducted these workshops for researchers, inventors, technology transfer offices, professors and in-house IP departments.

We provide complimentary copies of Canadian IP law guidebooks that our group has written: Intellectual Property Primer, The Business of Innovation, Intellectual Property and Relating Commercial Litigation in Canada, Biotechnology and Chemical Patent Practice in Canada and the Canadian Product Liability Handbook.

New Publication from BLG!

The Intellectual Property group at Borden Ladner Gervais has just released the 2nd Edition of our popular Canadian IP law guidebook: “Biotechnology and Chemical Patent Practice in Canada”. It is directed primarily to patent agents, lawyers and technology transfer officers specializing in biotechnology and chemical patent practice.

This book outlines the general patent practice system in Canada, provides details on chemical and biotechnology subject matter (including chemical compounds, antibodies and higher life forms to name a few), presents challenges to issued patents and provides an overview of regulatory issues (concentrating primarily on the Patented Medicines Regulations).

To receive your complimentary copy, please contact us.

We'd like to hear from you.

To book your compliementary IP Seminar or Workshop, or for compliementary copies of our IP law guidebooks, please contact us.

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