Michael 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, registration, litigation and enforcement 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, branding and financial strategies and initiatives for state-of-the-art biometric identification systems, biotechnology developers, international syndication, prime time television, news media, feature film, 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, patent 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 branding and licensing 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), and the International Trademark Association (INTA), where among other duties he served on the Meetings Committee for planning seminars and sessions for future Annual and Leadership meetings. Most recently, Mike has just been appointed for a two year term to the INTA Bulletin Committee responsible for Policies and Procedures – Special Features. He has also been appointed as one of only a handful of senior Canadian trade-mark lawyers for a four year term to the INTA’s Panel of Neutrals (PON), the world’s only international panel of neutral mediators who are both experts in trademark and unfair competition law and trained in the art of mediating disputes. For several years, Mike also served as the Chair for the legal seminars for international licensing conferences, including the Worldwide Licensing Exhibition (WLE) held in London, England, and the Licensing in Latin America (LILA) conference, held in Miami, Florida.
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