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Anthony M. Prenol

Partner, Toronto Office

Telephone  416-863-4292
Facsimile  416-863-2653
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Anthony Prenol is a Partner in the Intellectual Property Group. He is involved in all aspects of the clearance, prosecution and enforcement of intellectual property rights. He is a lawyer, patent agent and trade-mark agent.

Anthony's practice focuses primarily on patent litigation, trade-mark litigation and copyright. He has represented clients at all levels of courts up to the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Federal Court of Appeal, and before various administrative tribunals.

Anthony is recognized in Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business in the intellectual property litigation category. In The Best Lawyers in Canada, he was voted by peers as one of the leading intellectual property lawyers in Canada. He has been chosen as one of the "World's Leading Patent Law Practitioners" by Managing Intellectual Property and has been ranked in each of the IP: patent litigation and IP: non-patent litigation categories in surveys conducted by Practical Law Company (PLC). He has also been recognized as an "IP Luminary" in a survey of the IP community published by Informa Law.

Anthony is the editor of Intellectual Property World Desk Reference: A Guide to Practice by Country, State, and Province, a two-volume summary of intellectual property laws and procedures in nearly 150 jurisdictions around the world. He is also a member of the advisory board for IP Litigator magazine.

Anthony is a member of the Trademark Law & Practice (International) Committee of the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO). He has previously served on the International Trademark Association's editorial board for The Trademark Reporter and as a member of their Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee.



 
     
 

Areas of Law

Intellectual Property
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Life Sciences
 
 

Education

Registered Patent Agent, Canada - 1997
B.Math, University of Waterloo - 1992
Admitted to the Ontario Bar - 1990
Registered Trade-mark Agent, Canada - 1990
LL.B., University of Toronto - 1988
 
 

Media Appearances

Quoted - "Keeping Tabs on Advisors on Social Media Sites", Investment Executive, August 4, 2010.

Quoted - "Law Firms Hiring Students from all Disciplines These Days", The Lawyers Weekly, July 16, 2010.

Quoted - "Flurry of Lawsuits Keeps Drugmakers Busy", National Post, February 4, 2009.

Quoted - "Top Cases of 2006", Article by Helen Burnett, Law Times, January 15, 2007.

Quoted - "Judging Science", Article by Julius Melnitzer, Lexpert, P. 100, January 2007.

 
 

Recent Publications

Author - "Global Intellectual Property Protection and Enforcement", 2009 Corporate Counsel World Summit, Canadian Corporate Counsel Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, January 25-27, 2009.

Author - "Generic Drug Manufacturer Succeeds in Action Over Delayed Market Entry", The Lawyers Weekly, p. 8, January 23, 2009.

Author - "Canadian Court Determines Scope of Financial Recovery for Delayed Generic Entry", Blakes Bulletin on Intellectual Property, October 2008.

Author - "Official Mark Developments", Blakes Bulletin on Intellectual Property - Year in Review, December 2007.

Author - "Canada - IP - Year in Review: Patents", Blakes Bulletin on Intellectual Property - Year in Review Issue, December 2006.

Author - "Canada Amends Regulations Governing Generic Drug Approval Process", World Intellectual Property Report, P. 28, December 2006.

Author - "Canada Amends Regulations Governing Generic Drug Approval Process", Mondaq (www.mondaq.com), November 23, 2006.

Author - "Comparative Advertising in Canada – The Changing Landscape", Blakes Bulletin on Intellectual Property, November 2006.

 
 

Recent Professional Activities

Speaker - " Using Expert Evidence in Canadian Trade-mark Cases", The Trade-marks Practitioner, IPIC - McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, August 11, 2010.

Speaker - " Enforcement: Stopping the Twits", Hot Buttons in Intellectual Property Law, Blakes Seminar, Toronto, Ontario, June 9, 2010.

Speaker - " Cross-Border Perspective on Pharma Patents", 8th Annual Forum on Pharma Patents, The Canadian Institute, Toronto, Ontario, October 29, 2009.

Moderator - "Global Brand, Patent and IP Protection", 2009 Corporate Counsel World Summit, Canadian Corporate Counsel Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, January 25-27, 2009.

Speaker - "Pharma Patents Roundtable: Understanding Key Issues Impacting the Industry Today", 8th Annual Forum on Pharma Patents, The Canadian Institute, October 31, 2008.

Speaker - "Section 8 of the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations", 6th Annual Forum on Pharma Patents, The Canadian Institute, October 18, 2007.

Speaker - "Intellectual Property & E-Commerce Issues in Franchising", Ontario Region Legal Symposium, Canadian Franchise Association, Toronto, Ontario, March 8, 2007.

Speaker - "Intellectual Property Litigation", Legal Issues in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Recent Developments, Pharmaceutical Sciences Group, Toronto, Ontario, January 31, 2007.

Speaker - "Using Intellectual Property in Your Advertising: Have You Gone Too Far?", Advertising and Marketing Law, The Canadian Institute, January 25, 2007.

 
     
     
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