Practice Areas

Patents, Trade-marks, Electrical/ Electronics, Industrial/ Mechanical, Software/ Internet/ Information Technologies

Qualifications

Ontario Bar 2001.
Rochester Institute of Technology Hons. B.Sc. (Computer Engineering) 1991.
Syracuse University M.Sc. (Computer Engineering) 1993; master's project focused on C language implementation of an Order-N B-Tree data structure.
University of Toronto J.D. 1999.
Registered Patent Agent 2003.
Registered Trade-mark Agent 2003.
Registered to practise before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Biography

Peter Elyjiw is an associate in our Toronto office where he is responsible for drafting and prosecuting patent applications in the general areas of information technology, electronics, software, and mechanical devices. He is also involved with trade-mark prosecution and domain name matters.

With extensive experience practicing directly before the Canadian Intellectual Property Office and the United States Patent & Trademark Office, Mr. Elyjiw has obtained patent rights for clients across a wide spectrum of technologies, including technologies pertaining to wireless communication devices, object-oriented software, consumer electronics, databases, markup languages (e.g. Extensible Markup Language or "XML") and children's toys. Mr. Elyjiw also provides opinions on the patentability of inventions and on patent validity and infringement.

Before joining Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh, Mr. Elyjiw spent five years working in industry as a computer engineer. His work experience includes several years spent developing submarine combat system software under a secret level security clearance.

Upon completion of his studies in law, Mr. Elyjiw was awarded a prize for achieving the highest cumulative mark in intellectual property courses.

Mr. Elyjiw is fluent in Ukrainian.

Professional Involvement

• Member, Canadian Bar Association
• Member, Ontario Bar Association