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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY David W. Aitken Aitken Klee LLP Tel: (613) 695-5858 Ext. 221 Fax: (613) 695-5854 Ottawa daitken@aitkenklee.com Partner in Osler's Ottawa office and member of the national Intellectual Property Department. A Registered Patent Agent, Registered Trade-mark Agent and Professional Engineer. Practices exclusively in IP law with an emphasis on complex patent litigation, including proceedings under the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations and technology-related issues. Appears before the Federal Court, Federal Court of Appeal and the Patent Appeal Board. Also specializes in preparing and prosecuting patent applications, negotiating and preparing agreements for the licensing and exploitation of patent rights in Canada and abroad, and providing patent infringement and validity opinions. Included in the 2013 edition of Chambers Global (IP litigation, band 1), The 2013 Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada; Who's Who Legal: Canada 2012, patents and life sciences; the IAM Patent Litigation 250 – The World's Leading Patent Litigators 2012; IAM Patent 1000 – The World's Leading Patent Practitioners 2012; and The Best Lawyers in Canada 2013. Glen A. Bloom Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Tel: (613) 787-1073 Fax: (613) 235-2867 Ottawa gbloom@osler.com Anthony (Tony) George Creber Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP Tel: (613) 786-0140 Fax: (613) 563-9869 Ottawa anthony.creber@gowlings.com Steven B. Garland Smart & Biggar/ Fetherstonhaugh Tel: (613) 232-2486 Fax: (613) 232-8440 Ottawa sbgarland@smart-biggar.ca Practices intellectual property law, primarily litigating intellectual property cases before all levels of courts including the Supreme Court of Canada and administrative tribunals including the Copyright Board of Canada. Member of the Joint Canadian Bar Association/Intellectual Property Institute of Canada Copyright Technical Committee. Bloom was Chair of the Copyright technical Committee (2010–11), Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patent Reporter (2000–08), Canada's intellectual property law report series; past President of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (1998–99); founding Board member and Vice Chair of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (1998–2001); and trustee of the Copyright Society of the USA (1996–99). He was an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Common Law of the University Ottawa where he established the faculty's courses on Intellectual Property Protection of Computer Technology and Copyright Law. Admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1980. Tony Creber is a senior partner with Gowlings and is its senior IP litigation counsel. Creber's primary focus has been in chemical, biotech and pharmaceutical patent litigation. His practice has also included trade-mark litigation, regulatory issues and advising on IP life cycle. Creber has been consistently recognized by The Best Lawyers in Canada and Lexpert® and other similar directories as a leading lawyer in litigation, intellectual property and biotechnology. He regularly appears in the Federal Court (both trial and appeal), as well as the Supreme Court of Canada on patent matters, including questions of patentability of life forms, patent licensing and the infringement of biotech patents. Important cases he has appeared in include the SCC decisions in Schmeiser and Plavix. Most recently he represented Novartis in protecting its patent on Gleevec and Biotech Canada in an access to information case before the SCC, which corrected a restrictive interpretation of the trade secret exemption. Creber won the coveted "Patent Case of the Year 2009" award given by Managing Intellectual Property. Twenty years' experience in IP litigation of all types including: patent, trade-mark, copyright, industrial designs, trade secrets and competition law. Has appeared before the Ontario, Federal and Supreme courts as senior counsel in patent and trade-mark matters. Successfully represented Amazon.com in Amazon.com Inc v. Commissioner of Patents in what has become a leading case regarding patentable subject matter. Named Best Lawyers' 2013 Ottawa Intellectual Property Law Lawyer of the Year. Listed in The Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, the Lexpert® Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-border Litigation Lawyers in Canada, Chambers Global, Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Patent Law Practitioners, The Best Lawyers in Canada, IAM Life Sciences 250, IAM Patent Litigation 250, IAM Patent 1000, World Trademark Review 1000, Benchmark Canada, The International Who's Who of Life Sciences, The International Who's Who of Patent Lawyers and in Who's Who Legal: Canada. Called to the Ontario Bar in 1992. LEXPERT • December 2013 | www.lexpert.ca | 109