Melanie Szweras

Melanie Szweras is a partner with Bereskin & Parr LLP. Melanie's practice focuses on biotechnology and pharmaceutical patents including drafting and prosecution of such applications; providing validity and freedom to operate opinions as well as patent litigation matters. Melanie also advises on regulatory matters, such as labelling and advertising, for consumer goods and regulated products such as food and drugs.

Melanie is a lecturer for the second year Intellectual Property Law Course at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Ryerson University. She also lectures on aspects of Biotechnology and The Application Process at the University of Toronto’s Patent & Trade Secrets Law course and Osgoode Hall’s LLM Patent Law course. Melanie is a past Chair of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada’s (IPIC) Biotechnology Patents Committee. Melanie is also Vice-Chair of the Continuing Professional Development Committee for IPIC and Community Leader of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) Biotechnology Committee.

Melanie received numerous awards throughout her education including the Medical Research Council Studentship and a University of Toronto Open Scholarship. She was also the Bronze Medalist for her class of 2003 at Osgoode Hall Law School.