Vincent Yip

Partner in the firm’s national Intellectual Property and Business Law Groups. Based in Vancouver, leads the firm’s Western Canadian intellectual property practice and has a national practice, working closely with clients of the Calgary, Toronto, and Montréal offices. Practice focuses on the global acquisition, commercialization, and enforcement of intellectual property rights, including drafting and prosecuting patent and trademark applications; managing trademark oppositions, rendering patentability, validity, freedom-to-operate, and infringement opinions; and resolving intellectual property rights disputes. Has significant experience in the prosecution and management of global patent and trademark portfolios. As a patent and trademark lawyer with substantial corporate and commercial expertise, provides intellectual property advice on complex corporate and commercial transactions, including licensing, research and collaboration agreements, mergers & acquisitions, reorganizations, and financing transactions. · McCarthy Tétrault

CanadaIntellectual Property, Business LawCantonese, Mandarin

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Vincent Yip is a Partner in McCarthy Tétrault’s national Intellectual Property and Business Law Groups based in Vancouver, leading the firm’s Western Canadian intellectual property practice and maintaining a national practice. He advises on the global acquisition, commercialization and enforcement of intellectual property rights, including patent and trademark prosecution, oppositions, opinions and portfolio management, and on IP aspects of corporate and commercial transactions such as licensing and M&A.

Practice areas

Intellectual PropertyBusiness LawCorporate / M&A

Office

Canada

McCarthy Tétrault · Partner in the firm’s national Intellectual Property and Business Law Groups. Based in Vancouver, leads the firm’s Western Canadian intellectual property practice and has a national practice, working closely with clients of the Calgary, Toronto, and Montréal offices. Practice focuses on the global acquisition, commercialization, and enforcement of intellectual property rights, including drafting and prosecuting patent and trademark applications; managing trademark oppositions, rendering patentability, validity, freedom-to-operate, and infringement opinions; and resolving intellectual property rights disputes. Has significant experience in the prosecution and management of global patent and trademark portfolios. As a patent and trademark lawyer with substantial corporate and commercial expertise, provides intellectual property advice on complex corporate and commercial transactions, including licensing, research and collaboration agreements, mergers & acquisitions, reorganizations, and financing transactions.

Canada

Expertise

Patent prosecutionTrademark prosecutionTrademark oppositionsPatentability, validity and infringement opinionsFreedom-to-operate opinionsGlobal IP portfolio managementLicensing and technology transactionsIP due diligence for mergers & acquisitions

Education

B.Sc. (Honours) in Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia
LLB, University of British Columbia

Admissions

British Columbia (2008)

Languages

CantoneseMandarin