Intellectual Property
Litigation
Business Law
Regulatory Law

Barrette Legal adopts a multidisciplinary approach to intellectual property. The firm has a team of dynamic, highly creative specialists who will support you in pursuing your interests, whether it involves trademarks, patents, unfair competition, industrial designs, or copyright.

Our approach is designed to build a comprehensive defense strategy for your industrial and intellectual property. This protection includes, among other things, the management of your trademark, patent, industrial design, and copyright portfolio, as well as monitoring potential threats to your rights.

Our team will also guide you in the development of your portfolio or your business by conducting clearance searches for trademarks or business names you currently use or plan to use, as well as freedom-to-operate searches in the context of your innovations.

In a constantly evolving environment, our bold, entrepreneurially driven team supports you with tailored solutions, including confidentiality agreements, employment contracts, distribution agreements, and licensing agreements.

Barrette Legal is committed to supporting your business from the ground up, preparing shareholder agreements, articles and by-laws, internal company policies, public notices, or any other document needed for the launch, operation, and growth of your business.

We will also support you in your dealings with other businesses in various situations, such as the sale of your company or the acquisition of other companies. Our team is qualified to review or draft any sale, representation, distribution, or other intercompany agreement.

Leaders in the field with an excellent reputation in intellectual property, unfair competition, and civil and commercial litigation, the professionals on our litigation team deploy all their talent and effort to meet and exceed your expectations. Our lawyers will support you in your litigation before the Supreme Court of Canada, the Québec Court of Appeal, the Federal Court of Appeal, the Federal Court, the Québec Superior Court, the Court of Québec, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office — including before the Trademarks Opposition Board — and various administrative tribunals such as the Régie des marchés agricoles et alimentaires du Québec or the Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux.

Barrette Legal has developed a deep understanding of the Québec and Canadian regulatory framework as it pertains to the Charter of the French Language, the Act respecting the Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux, the Food and Drugs Act, and the Act respecting the marketing of agricultural, food and fish products.

Our team is always available to support our clients in their dealings with various government ministries and administrative bodies. We can act on behalf of clients for permit applications required by regulation as well as in any regulatory compliance effort. Our expertise ranges from representations before various government actors in the regulatory field to analyzing your business and its operations to ensure full compliance with the Québec and Canadian regulatory framework.

Given that the regulatory landscape is in constant evolution, we maintain ongoing regulatory monitoring to inform our clients of all recent developments and their potential impact on the businesses we represent.