Intellectual Property
Identify, protect and monetize your creations and innovations
Intellectual property assets are often a company’s most valuable assets. Copyrights, trademarks, industrial designs, patents, and trade secrets: identifying these assets, choosing the right protection strategy, and managing them are essential to your business.
At YULEX, we support you at every stage of your innovations’ lifecycle—from ideation to legal protection to commercialization—to secure your intellectual property and maximize its value both in Canada and abroad.
Particularly, we assist our clients with all government programs related to intellectual property (grants, tax credits, financial assistance, etc.).
Our Approach
We combine strategic expertise with a pragmatic approach to protect your creations and innovations. We are interested in your projects, which is why we take the time to fully understand what you do and what your long-term goals are. Beyond legal support, we help you transform your intellectual property rights into sources of growth and differentiation, both in Canada and elsewhere.
Our Intellectual Property Services
- Development, drafting, and implementation of intellectual property strategies
- National and international searches: prior art, availability, ownership, infringement
- Filing of trademark, industrial design, and copyright applications, both locally and internationally
- Management of Canadian and foreign intellectual property portfolios
- National and international monitoring
- Negotiation and drafting of licenses and assignments of rights
- Negotiation and drafting of coexistence agreements
- Support for commercialization
- Development and implementation of innovation, R&D, and intellectual property policies
- Representation in intellectual property disputes
Do your projects go beyond the borders of Quebec and Canada?
Thanks to our Interlegal network, we can assist in the protection and management of your intellectual property wherever your business takes you.
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