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Continuous Innovation. Continuous Invention. Continuous Improvement. These are more than good ideas - they are keys to growth and success in the automotive industry.
The automotive business is transforming into a new dynamic: OEMs have become both design houses and assemblers, while suppliers are challenged to innovate and provide highly-engineered modules.
The need to understand and protect the value of the intellectual property that drives these competitive realities is more urgent now than ever before.
Bereskin & Parr's Automotive group has a wealth of experience working in the automotive, manufacturing and high technology sectors. We understand the pressures clients face, and the need to protect intellectual property that provides the core value of innovation. We work with clients in a broad range of mechanical and industrial manufacturing areas including automotive technologies, blow molding technology and products, injection molding equipment, control engineering, power electronics, integrated circuit design, computer systems, and fuel cell technologies.
The Automotive team includes professionals with a wide range of educational and direct automotive industry experience. These professionals have expertise in drafting, prosecuting and licensing mechanical and industrial technologies. The group has proven multi-disciplinary technical experience, which enables them to more effectively protect inventions that include mechanical features, in combination with chemical, electrical and electronic aspects. Members of the Automotive team are registered to act before the patent offices of Canada and the United States. In addition, Bereskin & Parr acts through a network of associates before the patent offices of all countries in Europe including the United Kingdom, as well as the European Patent Office and draws on a select network of associates in Asia (China, Japan, Korea) and elsewhere to protect the patent interests of clients worldwide.
Our Services
The following is a list of the services that members of the automotive group can provide:
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Prepare and prosecute patent and trade mark applications worldwide |
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Provide patentability, validity and infringement searches and opinions |
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Perform prior art searches, including structure-based searches |
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Advise on the intellectual property aspects of supply or distribution agreements |
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Enforce, defend and litigate intellectual property rights |
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Provide strategic advice on intellectual property portfolios |
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Conduct intellectual property audits and due diligence investigations |
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Register copyright, industrial designs and integrated circuit topographies |
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Prepare and negotiate licensing agreements |
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