Area of Practice

Patents for electrical, mechanical and software inventions; industrial designs; trade marks.

Education & Bar Admissions

B.A. (Eng. Sci.), Oxford University, 1974
M.Sc. (Nucl. Eng.), University of London,
Imperial College of Science and Technology, 1976

Registered Canadian Patent Agent
Registered United States Patent Agent
Registered Canadian Trade Mark Agent
Registered U.K. Patent Agent
Registered European Patent Attorney

Profile

Sam Frost is a partner with Bereskin & Parr and heads the firm's Mississauga office.

Sam is a chartered patent agent in the United Kingdom and a registered patent and trade mark agent in Canada, where he won the J. Edward Maybee Memorial Prize for the patent agents examination and the Educational Foundation Prize for the trade mark agents examination.

Sam serves a wide range of clients with his patent expertise in software, electrical and mechanical inventions, including fuel cell and mass spectrometry technologies. Sam has published papers on the various intellectual property aspects of protecting inventions. He has also contributed extensively to patent agent training, having previously been a member of the Canadian Patent Agents Examination Board.

Professional Memberships

American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
Canadian Association of Defense and Security Industries (CADSI)
Canadian Hydrogen Association (CHA)
Chartered Institute of Patent Agents (CIPA London)
Institute of Professional Representatives Before the European Patent Office (EPI)
International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI)
Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC, Fellow)
Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE)
Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO)
Toronto Intellectual Property Group (TIPG)