OUR CLIENTS AND OUR TEAM
Whether they are multinational corporations, small- to medium-size businesses, universities or research centres, all our clients face the same challenge: how to constantly innovate to become or remain competitive industry leaders in an increasingly complex legal landscape.

In their quest to become or remain industry leaders, our clients need allies to fully capture, manage and optimize the value of their innovations. BCF is and has always been such an ally. Our team of highly qualified intellectual property lawyers, patent and trade-mark agents are dedicated to helping clients:

• identify innovations that will benefit from intellectual property protection, such as inventions, trade-marks, works protected by copyright, trade secrets, and industrial designs;
• maximize the value of innovations by obtaining the broadest intellectual property protection available;
• protect, defend and enforce intellectual property rights;
• generate new revenue streams or otherwise benefit from their intellectual property assets, whether through licensing programs or otherwise;
• carefully consider intellectual property rights of third parties, including competitors, before developing or commercializing new products, launching new branding initiatives or entering new markets;
• carefully consider the regulations that have an impact on research & development activities, labelling, advertising or commercialization of products and services;
• implement successful intellectual property management programs;
• enforce their intellectual property rights against infringers and defend themselves against third party intellectual property claims.

Multidisciplinary Approach
Our clients also benefit from the fact that our team of highly skilled intellectual property professionals is integrated into a full service business law firm. This ensures that competition law, tax law and other relevant laws and regulations are fully considered in intellectual property transactions such as the granting of licences. It also ensures that members of our intellectual property team will handle intellectual property issues, including due diligence investigations, in commercial transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, equity or other forms of financing.