Located in Hamilton, Ontario, we serve Canadian businesses in our local region and across Canada. We also serve foreign businesses seeking to protect their intellectual property in Canada.

We are authorized to represent Canadian and foreign businesses seeking to register their trademarks in Canada. We are also authorized to represent Canadian businesses seeking to register their trademarks in the United States.

Our principal lawyer and trademark agent, Michele Ballagh, has over 25 years of experience practising in the field of intellectual property law and offers a full range of intellectual property services from filing applications to preparing agreements and resolving disputes. Advice respecting patents and industrial designs is provided with the assistance of qualified patent agents.

We are committed to providing all our contacts with a superior client experience. In operating our business, we try our best to follow these principles:

• We are friendly and down-to-earth. This means we offer a free one-hour consultation to prospective clients. It also means that we answer the phone and respond to emails.

• We are honest and frank. This means that we provide a fair evaluation of the merits in any matter and the limits of the law.

• We invite clients to be part of the team. This means we do our best to explain legal principles and processes to our clients in plain terms so they can provide us with informed instructions.

• We bill at regular intervals for predictable sums. This means we bill fixed fees for most steps in the trademark application process and for other non-adversarial matters. In adversarial, we provide cost estimates for each stage where possible.

• We make our referral sources look good. This means that we treat our clients and potential clients with respect at all points of contact from answering the phone to closing the file.

• We provide timely and competent legal services. This means that we have a robust system for tracking deadlines. It also means we are committed to staying up to date on legal developments in our field and sharing that knowledge with our network.

• We have an international outlook. This means we maintain reciprocal relationships with qualified agents worldwide to assist our clients in protecting their intellectual property in other countries, as warranted.