Patents:  Secure your key markets

Whether you require broad umbrella protection for your invention or niche coverage for a key element, the experts at Valadares Law Group use our experience with patents and the complex patent laws around the world to suit your business needs.

At Valadares Law Group, our patent professionals are skilled in all aspects of patent protection including patentability opinions, drafting, prosecution, patent conflicts/interferences, re-examination and related litigation proceedings, in Canada and internationally. By understanding trends in our client's industry and profiling their competition, we create patent drafting and prosecution strategies focused on our client's core business goals. This way, our client is assured that both its present and future patent rights are thoroughly protected.

In addition to protecting inventions, our patent group has broad patent litigation experience, both in enforcing patents and defending against infringement and validity allegations. We also negotiate patent licenses and help our clients establish and manage their patent portfolios worldwide.

Our patent group provides the following services:

• Patentability searches and opinions
• Infringement and freedom-to-practice opinions
• Mapping the patent domain of a given technology sector
• Drafting original patent applications
• Attending to assignment and chain of title matters
• Filing and prosecuting patent applications in Canada and internationally
• Re-examination and other administrative proceedings
• Monitoring the progress of rival patent applications
• Resolving international and domestic patent infringement conflicts to avoid litigation
• Creating internal patent programs for the early identification of patentable inventions and providing straightforward procedures to be followed within the company

Specifically, on behalf of our clients we have:

• Drafted and prosecuted complex interrelated patents for a family of inventions in Canada and throughout the world on behalf of a medical device manufacturer
• Assumed responsibility for patent applications that had not advanced in five years, and obtained their issuance within six months
• Mapped the patent space for an environmental infrastructure manufacturer for use in presentations to potential investors
• Conducted complex patent infringement and validity analyses in technology sectors related to consumer products, gaming, medical devices, biopharma, software, electrical engineering and industrial equipment
• Prevented the competitor of a communication equipment manufacturer from obtaining patent protection by filing patent "protests" with relevant prior art