We are a full-service intellectual property law firm, offering our clients a range of domestic and international legal and agency services in areas including patents, trademarks, copyright, industrial designs, trade secrets, and protection and licensing of proprietary or confidential information. As a law firm we are also able to assist our clients with all other areas of IP work involving the practice of law including the protection of common law rights as well as enforcement of your intellectual property rights and litigation arising therefrom. 

We are patent and trademark agents as well as lawyers. Practically speaking this allows us to handle all aspects of our clients' intellectual property portfolio management. Along with prosecuting trademark and patent applications as trademark and patent agents, as lawyers we are able to assist our clients with licensing, litigation or enforcement, or the protection of other non-statutory intellectual property rights including confidential information, trade secrets and the like.

Our clients include individuals and companies from various industry sectors, and varying in size from individual inventors to regionally based companies, to multi-national and international corporations of various sizes.

We offer to our clients a full range of intellectual property expertise:

Patents: Expertise and experience in the drafting of patent applications with particular background in agricultural machinery and applications, mechanical engineering, manufacturing processes and methods, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals and computer technologies. Through our network of trusted associates we handle the prosecution of patent applications in Canada, the United States, Europe and world-wide.

 

Trademarks: A wide range of trademark legal services including searches , opinions on registrability, the filing and prosecution of applications for registration of trademarks as well as on-going monitoring of advertised trademark applications with experience to advise on and oppose other applications. Through our network of trusted associates we handle the prosecution of trademark applications in Canada, the United States, Europe and world-wide.

Technology transfer and licensing: A range of expertise in the transfer of technology and intellectual property rights in transactions involving not only the private sector, but also the university and government research communities. We can also provide assessments of title for due diligence purposes.

Litigation: Experience with a full range of enforcement and dispute resolution techniques as varied as injunctions and mediation, along with litigation support for all aspects of Canadian intellectual property law including a variety of litigation needs before the patent and trademark offices and regulatory tribunals and boards.

Other areas: Copyright, industrial designs, the protection of plant genetics work and plant breeders' rights, integrated circuit topography, product labeling, regulatory approvals, trade secrets and confidential information.

For a more complete listing of the types of services that we can provide, please select "Services" above.

Furman & Kallio participates in our business community. The firm holds various memberships and participate in the following organizations, boards and committees:

• International Trademark Association

• Intellectual Property Institute of Canada 

• American Intellectual Property Law Association

• Canadian Bar Association 

• Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership 

• Implement Manufacturers of Canada

• Saskatchewan Food Processors Association

• Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce 

• Regina Chamber of Commerce 

• Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce 

• North Saskatoon Business Association

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