Lisa Melanson
Lisa Melanson is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault LLP’s Intellectual Property Group. She has more than two decades of experience managing global IP portfolios and leading complex prosecution and regulatory files. Her full-service practice spans the range of IP protection, from patents and designs to trademarks and trade secrets. Building on her previous practice as a litigator, Lisa consults with the IP litigation team on contentious matters, often auditing the IP prosecution work of competing firms at the request of our litigation clients. She also provides IP and regulatory support on large commercial transactions. She is a pioneer of strategic practice at the complex IP/drug-regulatory interface under the Certificate of Supplementary Protection Regulations and the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations. · McCarthy Tétrault
About
Lisa Melanson is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault LLP’s Intellectual Property Group with more than two decades of experience managing global IP portfolios and leading complex prosecution and regulatory matters. She works across patents, designs, trademarks and trade secrets, advises on contentious IP matters and audits prosecution work for litigation clients, and provides IP and regulatory support on large commercial transactions, including at the IP/drug-regulatory interface under the Certificate of Supplementary Protection Regulations and the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations.
Practice areas
Office
Expertise
Education
- B.Sc. Hons. (Biology / Neuroscience), Dalhousie University, 1992
- LLB, Dalhousie University, 1995
- LLM, University of Cambridge, 1998
Admissions
- Nova Scotia Bar, 1997
- New York Bar (USA), 2001
- Ontario Bar, 2005