Christopher Heer

Christopher Heer’s intellectual property practice is focused primarily on patent law. He has acted for plaintiffs and defendants in complex patent litigation involving technologies such as wireless email, robotics, biomedical devices, and printing. Christopher also has an active patent agency practice, in which he has drafted and prosecuted patent applications in the mechanical, electrical, computer hardware and computer software fields.

Christopher is a co-author of the Patents chapter of the Canadian Forms & Precedents – Information Technology & Entertainment looseleaf service and has published articles on intellectual property topics in the Intellectual Property Journal and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review. He writes intellectual property case summaries for the Canadian Bar Association and also serves on the Information Technology Committee and the Patent Legislation Committee of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada.

Christopher received his Juris Doctor from the University of Toronto in 2004. He was awarded the Gowlings Prize in Innovation Law & Policy for attaining the highest grade point average in intellectual property courses, the Gowlings Prize in Law and Information Technology and the Stikeman Elliott Prize in Technology Law. In his final year, he was on the Senior Board of the Faculty of Law Review.

Christopher graduated from the University of Waterloo in 2001 with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Engineering (First Class Honours), a degree program which combines the two disciplines of electrical engineering and computer science. He has worked in an engineering capacity for a leading e-business software provider, a defence contractor, and a handheld-software developer.