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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

Paula Bremner, B.Sc., LL.B., LL.M.
Registered Canadian Trade-mark Agent & Patent Agent

Direct Dial: 416.777.0311
Email: pbremner@hitchman.com

Paula Bremner is a partner at Hitchman & Sprigings. She practices in a variety of aspects of intellectual property law. Ms. Bremner often appears before the Federal Court of Canada in patent and trade-mark litigation. She has also worked extensively on trade-mark opposition matters, and made frequent appearances before the Trade-marks Opposition Board.

Ms. Bremner has experience drafting and prosecuting Canadian and U.S. patent applications. She has been active in advising clients as to infringement and validity of intellectual property rights, and developing strategies that are consistent with their business mandate.

Ms. Bremner is a Registered Patent Agent, a Registered Trade-mark Agent and has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biochemistry. She has a Masters Degree in Intellectual Property Law, where her thesis paper dealt with patent evergreening issues.

Year of Call

Ontario 1996

 Professional Affiliations

  • Associate member of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada; sits on its licensing and patent legislation committees
  • America Intellectual Property Law Association
  • Toronto Biotech Initiative
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