John Orange is a senior member of the Intellectual Property Group. For more than 25 years, he has provided strategic advice on the development and enforcement of intellectual property rights for Canadian companies in the mechanical and electrical fields. His professional experience includes involvement in the licensing program for the compact disc industry, developing IP portfolios and working in the area of encryption.
John has played a leading role in developing formal patent training courses around the world. He has trained a number of entrants to the profession and lectures at the Patent & Trademark Institute of Canada patent agency course at McGill University.
John has obtained international recognition as a leading IP professional. He is listed as a patent expert in the Guide to the World's Leading Patent Experts published by Legal Media Group. He is past president of the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI), an international organization having close working relationships with international establishments such as the World Intellectual Property Organization, the World Trade Organization, the European Patent Office, and the European Commission, as well as the national patent offices.
John is a fellow of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada and has served on its council. He is president of the Communications Committee of FICPI, a member of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), and co-chair of the Special Committee on Patent Agents for the American Intellectual Property Law Association. He became a registered patent agent in 1979 and qualified as a trade-mark agent in 1981. He is qualified to practise before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
