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Mark B. Eisen, Partner

A registered patent agent and trademark agent, Mark has focused exclusively on the protection of inventions and trademarks since his call to the Ontario Bar in 1985. He has more than two decades of experience securing patent rights in a wide range of technologies, with particular emphasis on electrical, electronic, networking and business method technologies, and protecting trademark rights around the world.

Mark is certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a Specialist in Intellectual Property (Patent) Law. He is a Fellow of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) and is currently serving as Secretary on IPIC Council. He is also a member of the Canadian Bar Association, and is BV®Preeminent™ rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

Mark is actively involved in the intellectual property community and has made significant contributions to the Canadian intellectual property profession. He has authored articles and spoken at many IP law conferences and programs, most recently in the field of business methods. Mark served as a patent drafting tutor for IPIC’s Patent Tutorials for more than a decade and led IPIC’s program "Advanced Patent Drafting for Information Technology Practitioners." He has served as Chair of IPIC’s Tutorial Committee and IPIC’s Joint Liaison Committee – Patents, and is currently a member of IPIC’s Joint Liaison Committee – Patents and Joint Liaison Committee - Designs.

Mark received his LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1983 following undergraduate studies in maths and sciences at the University of Toronto.

Selected publications and presentations:

"Leading the IT section", IPIC Advanced Patent Claim Drafting course, Toronto, May 2010

"European Practice", Moderator of IPIC-European Patent Practice Seminar, Toronto, May 2010

"Business Method Patents" University of Toronto Annual Technology and Intellectual Property Speaker Series, March 2010

"Industrial Design Practice:  The Practioner's Perspective" CIPO Industrial Design Examiners, Ottawa, Oct 2009

"Understanding Patents - Exploiting IP Rights:  A worldwide strategy for attacking and defending a patent" IPIC-McGill (Montreal), July 2009

"Business method patents", CIPA Journal, July 2009.

"Business method and software patents in Canada", presented to the U.K. Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, April 2009.

"Current issues in Canadian trade-mark law", presented to the U.K. Chartered Institue of Patent Attorneys, April 2009.

"Strategies for obtaining business methods patents", presented at the 41st Intellectual Property Institue of Canada, Spring Meeting, April 2007.