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Dallas Smith is a partner in Gowlings' Ottawa office. He has expertise in patent prosecution, with an emphasis on originating patent drafting for Canadian high technology, electronics, communications, wireless and photonics companies. He is a registered patent agent in Canada and the United States
Prior to joining Gowlings, he spent four years as Director, Intellectual Property with Nortel Networks Corporation where he worked with various businesses on patent strategy and acquisition. He worked for the firm as a patent agent for two years after he spent six years as a patent manager for Northern Telecom's Patent Department, where he was responsible for the drafting, filing and prosecution of patents on a worldwide basis, for transmission systems, optical fibre systems, data and telephone switching networks and services, voice processing and speech recognition. He also advised various corporate departments on validity and infringement issues.
Dallas has conducted tutorials on drafting of patents for IPIC for ten years. For six years, he had lectured and tutored a portion of a summer course on patents for the PTIC at McGill University.
Presentation: "Patent Practice In Canada: How to Protect Your Inventions in Canada", AIPP study group Infopat, Tokyo, September 28, 2010
Presentation: "Patent Practice in Canada: How to Protect Your Inventions in Canada", Kansai Patent Attorneys' Study Group KTK, Osaka, September 30, 2010 |
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