Michael Andrews is a founding and Senior Partner of Andrews Robichaud. He is an Intellectual Property and Business lawyer and a Registered Trade-mark Agent, and advises on regular and complex trade-mark, copyright, patent and industrial design matters, including the searching, filing, prosecution and registration of trade-marks, copyrights, patents and industrial designs in Canada and internationally through a world-wide network of qualified associates. His clients range from small business owners to Fortune 100 companies and include industry sectors spanning business, high technology, biotechnology, consumer products, entertainment, sports, and the arts. Mike is routinely retained to act on behalf of well-known and famous brands and personalities.
In addition, Mike has significant transactional and financial expertise. Applying his business and legal background, he assists clients in protecting and expanding their domestic and international knowledge-based businesses using licensing, syndication, financing and tax strategies. Mike has developed and implemented intellectual property, business and financial strategies and initiatives for state-of-the-art biometric identification systems, biotechnology developers, international syndication, prime time television, news media, Internet and web-enabled application service providers, and leading fashion and consumer product businesses. He also is an experienced negotiator and litigator.
Mike is a frequent speaker and author on Canadian and international business, litigation and tax strategies as they relate to trade-mark, copyright and intellectual property licensing and related issues. He is equally comfortable addressing the technical issues of concern to intellectual property professionals and the interests of licensing and business audiences.
Mike is a member of numerous national and international legal and intellectual property organizations, including the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC), the Canadian Bar Association (CBA), the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC), the Carleton County Law Association (CCLA), IPSKI and the International Trademark Association (INTA), where for the last two years he served on the Meetings Committee for planning seminars and sessions for future Annual and Leadership meetings. For the last three years, Mike has also served as the Chair for the legal seminar for the Licensing in Latin America conference, held each November in Miami, Florida. He is also a founder of the Intellectual Property Global Alliance (IPGA), a new international professional trade organization, with its headquarters in Los Angeles, California.
Mike manages the Canada Patent, Trademark and Copyright Lawyer Blog, where you may read about intellectual property and its uses for your business.
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