Intellectual Property
Canada Guide 2025 : Nationwide - Canada
Band 3
Contact number
+1 416 863 1221About
Provided by Baker McKenzie
Team experience and size
Our Toronto intellectual property lawyers offer a full range of IP related services and are leaders in the Firm globally for their work using artificial intelligence to streamline the trademark prosecution practice. Presently, the team consists of nine lawyers and three trademark agents and one trademark clerk.
IP practice specialisms:
- IP transactions & portfolio management
- Licensing & distribution agreements, disputes
- Trademark enforcement/anti-counterfeiting
- Copyright advice & litigation
- Patent advice & litigation
- Misleading advertising claims
Industry sector strengths:
- Pharmaceutical companies & healthcare
- Information technology
- Food & pet food industries
- Financial services
- Consumer goods & retail
- Luxury/fashion brands
- Automotive
Innovation and Technology
- We offer a global trademark service enhanced by our web-enabled trademark management tool - Global IP Manager - allowing companies real time access to their trademark records securely from the Internet.
- Our lawyers are directly involved in the Firm's innovation initiatives, many are "innovation ambassadors."
- We deploy leading software tools for litigation and document management.
- We utilize the services of captive offshore services, including e-discovery.
- Our Firm is organized regionally, so we are able to draw upon our vast North American network of legal and technological lawyers with higher degrees in various fields of engineering including electrical, mechanical, chemical and biological.
Chambers Review
Well-known international law firm Baker McKenzie services an impressive list of global brands across pharmaceuticals, luxury consumer products, technology and financial services. The Toronto-based team offers significant experience in IP portfolio management and prosecution, as well as litigation, covering trade marks, copyrightsand patents. The group also regularly assists with IP issues relating to significant cross-border transactions.
Work Highlights
- Baker McKenzie assisted Fidelity Information Services with a copyright infringement lawsuit involving software licenses, as well as trade mark prosecution and enforcement matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The team has deep knowledge about our business, the ability to think creatively and an understanding of our commercial realities and constraints."
"Baker McKenzie are extremely responsive and communicative."
"The Baker McKenzie team is eager to understand our needs and strategy, and works towards these ends with extreme diligence."
"They offer a depth of experience in trade mark law."
"The team has deep knowledge about our business, the ability to think creatively and an understanding of our commercial realities and constraints."
"Baker McKenzie are extremely responsive and communicative."
"The Baker McKenzie team is eager to understand our needs and strategy, and works towards these ends with extreme diligence."
"They offer a depth of experience in trade mark law."
Notable Practitioners
Based in Toronto, Christopher Aide has considerable experience advising a range of prominent clients on the management and protection of their IP portfolios.
"Christopher is an excellent and thoughtful service provider."
"His depth of knowledge and technical understanding are amazing."
Stephanie Vaccari is an esteemed lawyer who frequently handles trade mark prosecution, opposition and infringement mandates.
"Steph is my go-to counsel for trade mark matters."
Ranked Lawyers at
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Members
Provided by Baker McKenzie
Conrad Flaczyk
Jacqueline Chan
Jim Holloway
Matthew Cook
Matthew Oppenheim
Mike Rubinger
Sepideh Nassabi
Head of Department
Theo Ling