Ken is a trusted intellectual property advisor for growing patent portfolios for a broad range of start-ups, early-stage ventures, universities, government organizations, and multinational corporations in the life sciences, biotechnology, agribiotech, chemical, and medical devices sectors, as well as select mechanical and consumer products sectors.
Ken routinely drafts and prosecutes patent applications and advises clients throughout subsequent patent prosecution in worldwide jurisdictions, with an emphasis on Canada, US, and Europe. He also prepares patentability, infringement, validity and freedom-to-operate opinions, and is in involved in due diligence matters.
Ken has successfully represented clients before the Patent Appeal Board and provides strategic advice regarding the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations and Certificates of Supplementary Protection.
Prior to becoming a lawyer and registered patent agent, he worked as a patent manager for a large nutraceutical corporation and earned his Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Ottawa.
Away from the office Ken enjoys spending time with his family, and sporting activities including running, gravel biking, swimming, and snowboarding.
For more than 25 years, Kirby IP Canada partner Robert Feutlinske has been a trusted voice at the end of the line ready to answer clients’ questions about how to protect their intellectual property. He says having direct access to an expert advisor is one of the key reasons international companies and their representatives continue to call on Kirby IP Canada.
“Our clients are under a lot of pressure,” says Robert. “When they need answers, they need them quickly. People know when they call me I’m going to get back to them promptly. My job is to relieve their anxiety, let them know we’re on it, and take action right away to get the results they’re looking for.”
Robert is a registered Canadian and U.S. patent agent. He helps clients in Canada and around the world obtain patent and industrial design protection for a wide range of technological inventions including telecommunications, medical instruments, electronics and software.
Robert joined Kirby IP Canada in 1990 after graduating from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Systems Design Engineering. He is a co-managing partner of the firm. Robert is also a member of the Patent Agent Examination Standards Committee of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, which he joined in 2006.
With a deep background in the biochemical sciences, Trevor Mee knows how to handle complexity. When it comes to protecting clients’ intellectual property, the Kirby IP Canada partner says his goal is to keep things simple.
“With any form of IP protection, we try to make the examination process as streamlined as possible — to find the most efficient way to the best result,” Trevor says. “For that, you need to be proactive and engage the examiner. You can’t just sit back and push paper: you have to drive the process forwards with an eye to achieving the broadest protection possible.”
Trevor is a registered Canadian and U.S. patent agent. He helps clients in Canada and around the world to obtain broad patent protection for the most complex inventions in chemistry, molecular biology, gene engineering and pharmaceuticals.
Trevor joined Kirby in 2000, after doctoral and post-doctoral medical research in the fields of cancer biology, HIV and virology. He has several scientific publications to his name. He is co-managing partner of the firm.
Lynda has specialized in trademarks for more than 20 years. After her articling placement with an Ottawa law firm — whose scope of practice included business law, commercial litigation, personal injury, medical malpractice, planning and land development — Lynda found her niche in intellectual property.
Before joining the Kirby team in 2001 as a Trademark Agent, Lynda worked at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office as a Senior Trademarks Examiner and as the Acting Chief of Trademarks Training and Development.
Shannon has high-level expertise with more than 15 years of experience in the preparation and prosecution of patents in the areas of computer software, business methods and telecommunications technology as well as the registration of industrial designs.
Shannon is an active member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), having acted as chair and vice-chair on various AIPLA committees.
Daniel’s background positions him to fundamentally understand and appreciate the direction and pace of innovation in the biochemical and computational sciences. He is keen to leverage his knowledge and years of IP training into pushing for the broadest possible scope of protection for clients.
Daniel comes from a molecular biology, computational biology, and protein engineering background with over 20 scientific publications bearing his name. During his doctoral studies, Daniel worked for a start-up protein engineering company that in part spun out from results of his PhD research. Following the completion of his PhD, Daniel worked as post-doctoral researcher at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine before entering the intellectual property field.
Daniel is currently a registered Patent Agent in Training whose practice is primarily in the fields of biologics, chemistry, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices.
Patricia specializes in patent matters in the technology areas of biotechnology, biologics, pharmaceuticals/chemicals, and medical devices. Her practice focuses upon prosecuting and drafting Canadian patent applications. She has extensive experience in prosecuting patent applications in international jurisdictions as well, including the US, Europe, China, Japan and South Korea.
Prior to joining Kirby IP Canada, Patricia was a business development manager protecting, managing and commercializing intellectual properties born out of a regional hospital network. Patricia also worked as a life sciences and biotechnology specialist in a Japanese patent law firm in Osaka Japan where her work focused on prosecuting Japanese patent applications for leading North American and European biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.
Zhengxiao (Roy) Yang is an experienced intellectual property lawyer, registered patent agent, and registered trademark agent. Roy has a robust foundation in intellectual property law and strong technical expertise in electrical engineering.
Roy’s practice includes patents, industrial designs, and trademarks in Canada. He also advises clients on technology law and copyright.
Roy’s patent and industrial design practice involves advising clients on patent and industrial design protection strategies, preparing patentability opinions, drafting patent applications across diverse technical fields in electrical engineering and mechanical engineering, prosecuting patent applications, providing infringement opinions, managing patent and industrial design portfolios, and providing Freedom-to-Operate opinions.
His trademark practice includes providing trademark availability and registrability opinions, preparing and filing trademark applications, prosecuting trademark applications, involvement in trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings, preparing and negotiating settlement agreements, and providing trademark infringement and passing off opinions.
Before his legal career in intellectual property, Roy was a telecommunications engineer, specialized in wireless network design and optimization.
Ken is a trusted intellectual property advisor for growing patent portfolios for a broad range of start-ups, early-stage ventures, universities, government organizations, and multinational corporations in the life sciences, biotechnology, agribiotech, chemical, and medical devices sectors, as well as select mechanical and consumer products sectors.
Ken routinely drafts and prosecutes patent applications and advises clients throughout subsequent patent prosecution in worldwide jurisdictions, with an emphasis on Canada, US, and Europe. He also prepares patentability, infringement, validity and freedom-to-operate opinions, and is in involved in due diligence matters.
Ken has successfully represented clients before the Patent Appeal Board and provides strategic advice regarding the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations and Certificates of Supplementary Protection.
Prior to becoming a lawyer and registered patent agent, he worked as a patent manager for a large nutraceutical corporation and earned his Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Ottawa.
Away from the office Ken enjoys spending time with his family, and sporting activities including running, gravel biking, swimming, and snowboarding.
For more than 25 years, Kirby IP Canada partner Robert Feutlinske has been a trusted voice at the end of the line ready to answer clients’ questions about how to protect their intellectual property. He says having direct access to an expert advisor is one of the key reasons international companies and their representatives continue to call on Kirby IP Canada.
“Our clients are under a lot of pressure,” says Robert. “When they need answers, they need them quickly. People know when they call me I’m going to get back to them promptly. My job is to relieve their anxiety, let them know we’re on it, and take action right away to get the results they’re looking for.”
Robert is a registered Canadian and U.S. patent agent. He helps clients in Canada and around the world obtain patent and industrial design protection for a wide range of technological inventions including telecommunications, medical instruments, electronics and software.
Robert joined Kirby IP Canada in 1990 after graduating from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Systems Design Engineering. He is a co-managing partner of the firm. Robert is also a member of the Patent Agent Examination Standards Committee of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, which he joined in 2006.
With a deep background in the biochemical sciences, Trevor Mee knows how to handle complexity. When it comes to protecting clients’ intellectual property, the Kirby IP Canada partner says his goal is to keep things simple.
“With any form of IP protection, we try to make the examination process as streamlined as possible — to find the most efficient way to the best result,” Trevor says. “For that, you need to be proactive and engage the examiner. You can’t just sit back and push paper: you have to drive the process forwards with an eye to achieving the broadest protection possible.”
Trevor is a registered Canadian and U.S. patent agent. He helps clients in Canada and around the world to obtain broad patent protection for the most complex inventions in chemistry, molecular biology, gene engineering and pharmaceuticals.
Trevor joined Kirby in 2000, after doctoral and post-doctoral medical research in the fields of cancer biology, HIV and virology. He has several scientific publications to his name. He is co-managing partner of the firm.
Lynda has specialized in trademarks for more than 20 years. After her articling placement with an Ottawa law firm — whose scope of practice included business law, commercial litigation, personal injury, medical malpractice, planning and land development — Lynda found her niche in intellectual property.
Before joining the Kirby team in 2001 as a Trademark Agent, Lynda worked at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office as a Senior Trademarks Examiner and as the Acting Chief of Trademarks Training and Development.
Shannon has high-level expertise with more than 15 years of experience in the preparation and prosecution of patents in the areas of computer software, business methods and telecommunications technology as well as the registration of industrial designs.
Shannon is an active member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), having acted as chair and vice-chair on various AIPLA committees.
Daniel’s background positions him to fundamentally understand and appreciate the direction and pace of innovation in the biochemical and computational sciences. He is keen to leverage his knowledge and years of IP training into pushing for the broadest possible scope of protection for clients.
Daniel comes from a molecular biology, computational biology, and protein engineering background with over 20 scientific publications bearing his name. During his doctoral studies, Daniel worked for a start-up protein engineering company that in part spun out from results of his PhD research. Following the completion of his PhD, Daniel worked as post-doctoral researcher at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine before entering the intellectual property field.
Daniel is currently a registered Patent Agent in Training whose practice is primarily in the fields of biologics, chemistry, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices.
Patricia specializes in patent matters in the technology areas of biotechnology, biologics, pharmaceuticals/chemicals, and medical devices. Her practice focuses upon prosecuting and drafting Canadian patent applications. She has extensive experience in prosecuting patent applications in international jurisdictions as well, including the US, Europe, China, Japan and South Korea.
Prior to joining Kirby IP Canada, Patricia was a business development manager protecting, managing and commercializing intellectual properties born out of a regional hospital network. Patricia also worked as a life sciences and biotechnology specialist in a Japanese patent law firm in Osaka Japan where her work focused on prosecuting Japanese patent applications for leading North American and European biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.
Zhengxiao (Roy) Yang is an experienced intellectual property lawyer, registered patent agent, and registered trademark agent. Roy has a robust foundation in intellectual property law and strong technical expertise in electrical engineering.
Roy’s practice includes patents, industrial designs, and trademarks in Canada. He also advises clients on technology law and copyright.
Roy’s patent and industrial design practice involves advising clients on patent and industrial design protection strategies, preparing patentability opinions, drafting patent applications across diverse technical fields in electrical engineering and mechanical engineering, prosecuting patent applications, providing infringement opinions, managing patent and industrial design portfolios, and providing Freedom-to-Operate opinions.
His trademark practice includes providing trademark availability and registrability opinions, preparing and filing trademark applications, prosecuting trademark applications, involvement in trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings, preparing and negotiating settlement agreements, and providing trademark infringement and passing off opinions.
Before his legal career in intellectual property, Roy was a telecommunications engineer, specialized in wireless network design and optimization.
Located in Canada’s national capital of Ottawa, Ontario, our offices are just across the Ottawa River from the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) where all IP protection applications are processed in Canada. That makes it easy for us to meet with CIPO representatives, conduct searches and hold interviews with examiners on our clients’ behalf.
Peter Kirby founded our firm in 1959 with the vision of providing the highest quality, boutique-style intellectual property protection services, tailored to clients around the world. As the firm grew — becoming Kirby Eades Gale Baker — with expertise in sectors ranging from nanotechnology and pharmaceuticals to complex mechanical systems, software, financial trading applications and telecommunications, we have earned a reputation for precision, responsive client service and exceptional results.
Our team continues that tradition today. Kirby IP Canada remains focused on intellectual property protection, providing expert advice on IP portfolio management, filing strategies, patentability and infringement matters, as well as preparation, filing and prosecution of patent, trademark and industrial design applications in Canada and around the world.
