Join us on Wednesday, October 2nd at 10:00 am and learn about the importance of Strategic Management of Intellectual Assets. In this session, we’ll talk about how IP helps a company gain competitive advantage and how to reduce risks and create value from your IP assets as part of your overall business strategy.

Meet your presenter..

Stewart is a Partner in the Halifax office. Stewart brings over 15 years of experience in commercial litigation with a focus on contractual, shareholder, trade-mark, copyright, and patent litigation, as well as medical defence litigation, and professional regulation.

Stewart’s IP practice includes trade-mark application and prosecution, trade-mark opposition practice, trade-mark infringement opinions and litigation, patentability opinions, patent infringement opinions and litigation, and domain name disputes.

Stewart obtained his Bachelor of Science in physics from St. Francis Xavier University and his Master of Science in physics from the University of Guelph. Stewart worked in radiology imaging software before obtaining his law degree from Dalhousie University in 2003. Stewart practiced IP litigation in Toronto and was in-house IP counsel at Ballard Power Systems in Vancouver, before returning home to join Cox & Palmer in 2010.

Stewart has been recognized nationally as a Lexpert “Rising Star: Leading Lawyers Under 40” and “Canadian Corporate Lawyer to Watch.” Stewart also works in the area of health law and medical defence, including acting as counsel to the Canadian Medical Protective Association and its member physicians.