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Hitchman & Sprigings is committed to providing experienced professionals with the training and expertise needed to meet our clients' requirements. Our firm is made up of intellectual property lawyers with a wide variety of backgrounds ranging from biochemistry to electrical engineering. Most are registered patent and/or registered trade-mark agents.


Carol Hitchman

Warren Sprigings

Paula Bremner

Olga Kalinina

Christopher Tan

Robert Shapiro  

Greg Beach

Christopher Tan, B.Sc., LL.B. 

Registered Canadian Trade-mark Agent

 

Direct Dial:  416.777.2647
Email:  ctan@hitchman.com

Christopher Tan practices exclusively in the area of intellectual property litigation, with particular emphasis on trade-mark matters and actions to recover damages and accounting of profits in relation to patents.  Mr. Tan has appeared as counsel before the Federal Court of Appeal, the Federal Court and the Trade-marks Opposition Board. 

Mr. Tan is a registered Canadian Trade-mark Agent.  His experience includes drafting and prosecuting trade-mark applications, as well as acting in opposition proceedings before the Trade-marks Opposition Board and expungement proceedings before the Federal Court.

Mr. Tan obtained a Bachelor of Science (Honours Biology) from the University of Ottawa and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Western Ontario.  Prior to joining this firm, Mr. Tan articled and practiced at a full service law firm and also worked with in-house counsel of a large crown corporation.

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