Area of Practice

Patents, trade marks, industrial designs and licensing.

Education & Bar Admissions

B.Sc. (Chem. Eng.), Queen’s University, 1981
LL.B., Osgoode Hall Law School, 1984

Admitted to the Bar of Ontario, 1986

Registered Canadian Patent Agent, 1988
Registered United States Patent Agent, 1988
Registered Canadian Trade Mark Agent

Profile

Philip C. Mendes da Costa is a partner with Bereskin & Parr.

Philip has been a registered patent agent in both Canada and the United States since 1988 and is also a registered trade mark agent in Canada. Philip advises clients on the development and implementation of strategic IP portfolio creation and management. His experience includes obtaining patent, industrial design, and trade mark rights for clients around the world. He focuses on a variety of areas including consumer products and petrochemicals. He has clients in the consumer product and petrochemical fields.

Philip approaches every file by first understanding the business needs of the client and then developing a plan to meet those needs. He believes every file has to be treated with this in mind, and there is no boilerplate answer.

Philip is an active member of both the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) and Ontario Bar Association. He was chair of the CBA's National IP Section in 1997 and sat on the CBA's Executive of the National Sections Council from 1999 to 2002. In addition, Philip had held positions on Ontario Bar Associations Committees.

Professional Memberships

American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO)
Canadian Bar Association (CBA)
Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering (CSChE)
Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC)
Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC, Fellow)
International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI)
Lawyers’ Club
Phi Delta Phi International Legal Fraternity
Toronto Intellectual Property Group (TIPG)