Practice Areas

Patents, IP Management & Strategic Counselling, Electrical/ Electronics, Software/ Internet/ Information Technologies

Qualifications

Ontario Bar 2008.
Queen's University B.Sc. (Mathematics and Electrical Engineering) 1989.
Queen's University M.Sc. (Electrical Engineering) 1993; thesis focused on spread spectrum communications.
University of Ottawa LL.B. 2007.
Registered Patent Agent 1996.
Registered to practise before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Biography

R. Allan Brett is a partner in our Ottawa office where his practice involves complete patent portfolio development and management for clients in various technology sectors including telephony, Internet, communications systems and components, wireless systems, photonics, control systems, digital rights management, software, computers and computing industries.

Mr. Brett's engineering experience before entering the patent field includes hardware design at Lockheed Canada, digital telephone switch system test and integration at Bell Northern Research, and Radarsat satellite simulator development at Prior Data Sciences.

Professional Involvement

• Fellow, Intellectual Property Institute of Canada
• Member, Fédération internationale des conseils en propriété industrielle (FICPI) 
• Member, Canadian Intellectual Property Association; member of CIPA's Information Technology Committee
• Member, Patent Cooperation Treaty Reform Committee
• Annual guest lecturer, Queen's University