Pierre Robichaud Founder Andrews Robichaud Ottawa, Ontario

Pierre Robichaud is a founding partner of Andrews Robichaud. He is a Professional Engineer and an intellectual property lawyer. Pierre uses his professional engineering and legal skills to assist clients in the field of patent and trade-mark law and to help them to identify their legal issues and advance their knowledge-based businesses and opportunities.

Pierre’s entrepreneurial spirit led him to the founding of Andrews Robichaud, as he clearly saw a need for legal services in the field of intellectual property that are aimed at fostering growth in companies. Pierre actively advises clients on how to utilize a company’s hidden assets, namely its intellectual property, as a new stream of revenue or to bolster a company’s competitive position in key markets.

Pierre deals routinely with patent searches, drafting patent applications and providing clients with patentability and infringement opinions. He is also involved on a day-to-day basis with the preparation and prosecution of trade-mark applications. Pierre also has experience in opposition and expungement proceedings before the Trade-marks Office, Trade-marks Opposition Board, and in the Federal Court. He also advises clients on copyright and industrial design matters, including applications, registration and infringement.

Pierre is involved in litigation involving the protection and enforcement of intellectual property and related rights, including the preparation of pleadings and evidence, and the carriage of litigation from initial filings through to court hearings and/or settlement.

In addition, Pierre is one of the founders of Strata, a business and management consulting group with offices in Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver, which is comprised of senior and very successful serial entrepreneurs and business professionals who specialize in assisting intellectual property based, emerging growth companies to grow and expand their businesses domestically and internationally.

Pierre is originally from New Brunswick and now currently resides in Ottawa, Ontario with his wife and two sons, Yanick and Tristan. In his spare time, Pierre enjoys working on his vintage muscle cars.

Pierre is a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario, (PEO), the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC), the International Trademark Association (INTA), the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) and the Association des Juristes de l'Expression Française de l'Ontario (AJEFO).

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