Steven Garland

• "Patent Agent Privilege – A Canadian and International Perspective", AIPLA Spring Meeting, May 17, 2024
• "Yves Choueifaty v Attorney General of Canada - CIPO's Approach to Patentable Subject Matter", AIPPI Canada Annual General Meeting, November 2020
• "Yves Choueifaty v Attorney General of Canada" (with Jeff Leuschner), webinar, Toronto Intellectual Property  Group, October 21, 2020
• “The Confidentiality of Client-Attorney Communications,” speaker, WIPO’s 31st session of the Standing Committee on the Law of Patents, Geneva, Switzerland, December 4, 2019
• "Patent Claim Construction: Jurisprudential Building Blocks and a Comparison of Canadian, U.S., and U.K. Approaches," speaker, IPIC Webinar, October 18, 2019
• "AIPLA Giles S. Rich IP Moot Court Competition," Moot Court Judge, Washington, D.C., April 2019
• "Canadian patent litigation: practical guide for in-house counsel," presentation at the 30th annual Silicon Valley Association for General Counsel (SVAGC) All Hands Meeting, Santa Clara, CA, October 15-16, 2018
• "IP Enforcement in Oil & Ag: Risk Management and Asserting Your Rights," presentation to the Association of Corporate Counsel of Canada, Calgary, AB, May 16, 2018
• "Patent Law Year in Review," presentation to CIPO Patent Examiners, Gatineau, QC, September 20, 2017
• "Patent Litigation: Practical Do’s and Don’ts," LES (USA & Canda), Calgary, September 2016
• "Update on Patents 2016," Law Society of Upper Canada's 20th Annual Intellectual Property Law: The Year in Review, Ottawa, January 2016
• "Recent Developments on Patent Law Before the Federal Courts," Federal Court Annual Education Seminar, Montebello, October 2015
• "Update on Global Initiatives," 2015 Global Network of National IP Practitioner Associations Summit, Rio De Janeiro, October 2015
• "Pharma Session I: Don’t Miss the (Right) Mark." AIPPI – Rio Panel Session, Rio De Janeiro October 2015
• "Patent Year in Review," presentation to CIPO Patent Examiners, Gatineau, QC, May 2015
• "The Year in Review in IP Law," Intellectual Property Institute of Canada Webinar — Patent Law Update, February 2015
• "Domestic and International Issues Related to Privileged Communications Between Patent Practitioners and their Clients" (roundtable), United States Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA, February 2015
• "Update on Patents 2015," Law Society of Upper Canada's 19th Annual Intellectual Property Law: The Year in Review, Ottawa, January 2015
• "A Review of Patentable Subject Matter Post-Amazon and Post-Alice," presented at the LES Calgary Chapter Meeting, Calgary, December 2014
• "AIPPI’s Involvement in the Plavix Appeal," presented at AIPPI's Annual General Meeting, Ottawa, November 2014
• "Effective Patent Enforcement Strategies," 2014 Oil and Gas IP Summit, Calgary, November 2014
• "That’s Privileged: Ethical Considerations in a Global Environment," INTA 2014 Leadership Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, November 2014
• "Recent Developments in Canadian Trademark Law," 89th Annual PTMG Autumn Conference, Chicago, IL, October 2014
• "Client-Attorney Privilege — Issues for Harmonization" (moderator), AIPPI 2014 World Intellectual Property Congress, Toronto, September 2014
• "Confidentiality of Communications Between Clients and Patent Advisors," summary of oral submissions given on behalf of AIPPI at the WIPO Standing Committee on Patents (SCP), Geneva, Switzerland, January 2014
• "Foreign IP Advisor Communications: Are They Protected from Forcible Disclosure?," 2014 AIPLA Mid Winter Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, January 2014
• "Update on Patents 2014," Law Society of Upper Canada's 18th Annual Intellectual Property Law: The Year in Review, Ottawa, January 2014
• "Resume of and discussion on national positions; the way forward," AIPPI/AIPLA/FICPI Colloquium, Paris, France, June 2013
• "Recommendations and Communique," AIPPI/AIPLA/FICPI Colloquium, Paris, France, June 2013
• "Patent Law Updates," presentation to the Canadian Intellectual Property Office, Ottawa, April 2013
• "The Year in Review in IP Law," Intellectual Property Institute of Canada Webinar — Patent Law Update, February 2013
• "Update on Patents 2013," Law Society of Upper Canada's 17th Annual Intellectual Property Law: The Year in Review, Ottawa, January 2013
• "Obtaining and Enforcing Patent Rights in Canada," 2012 International IP Forum & AIPPI  - U.S. Special Meeting, Houston, Texas, June 2012
• "Confidentiality of Communications Between Clients and Patent Advisors," summary of oral submissions given on behalf of AIPPI at the WIPO Standing Committee on Patents (SCP), Geneva, Switzerland, May 2012
• "Trademark Cancellation Proceedings in Canada," 2012 AIPPI China/Asia IP Seminar, Beijing, China, April 2012
• "The 'Utility' Requirement: What is a 'useful' invention under Canadian law?" (co-presenters: Daphne C. Lainson and Hongbin Li) and "Canada: The Statutory Basis for and Judicial Application of the Utility Requirement," Comparative Intellectual Property Law Symposium, Ottawa, April 2012
• "Current topics in Patent Law," presentation to the Canadian Intellectual Property Office, Ottawa, April 2012
• Participant in IPIC's 2012 Patent Law Update Webinar, February 24, 2012
• "Update on Patents 2012" Law Society of Upper Canada's 13th Annual Intellectual Property Law: The Year in Review, Ottawa, January 2012
• "IP Goes Digital – How the Internet Has Changed the Way We Look at IP Patents" (panelist) Law Society of Upper Canada's 16th Annual Intellectual Property Law: The Year in Review, Ottawa, January 2012
• "The Duty of Candour in Canada" presented at IPIC's Annual General Meeting, Chicago, IL, September 2011
• "The Weatherford Decision" presented at IPIC's The Weatherford Decision Webinar, Toronto, September 2011
• "Patent Law Review: The Top 20 of 2010," presentation to CIPO Patent Examiners, Gatineau, QC, May 2011
• "Patentable Subject Matter: A Canadian Perspective," 2011 AIPLA Spring Meeting, San Francisco, May 2011
• "Update on Patents," Intellectual Property Institute of Canada webinar, March 2011
• "Canadian IP Law Update - Practical Tips and Information for U.S. Attorneys - Litigation," Smart & Biggar Seminar, Minneapolis, January 2011
• "Duty of Candour in Canada," Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) Patent Examiners, January 2011
• "Update on Patents 2011," Law Society of Upper Canada's 15th Annual Intellectual Property Law: The Year in Review, Ottawa, January 2011
• "The Amazon.com decision and the patenting of business methods in Canada," Intellectual Property Institute of Canada webinar, December 2010
• "Duty of Candour in Canada," Canadian Institute's 9th Annual Forum on Pharma Patents, Toronto, November 2010
• "Update on Patents," Intellectual Property Institute of Canada Webinar — Patent Law Update, April 2010
• "Successful Management of IP Litigation and Dispute Resolution" (moderator), Canadian Corporate Counsel Association 2010 National Spring Conference, April 2010
• "Intellectual Property and Advisor/Client Privilege," AIPPI 2009 Seoul Intellectual Property International Conference, Seoul, South Korea, November 15, 2009
• "Opening Statements & Closing Arguments," Federal Court Annual Education Seminar, Montreal, October 2009
• "Patent Law Update," Intellectual Property Institute of Canada Webinar — Update on Patent Law, April 2009
• "Update on Patents 2009," Law Society of Upper Canada's 13th Annual Intellectual Property Law: The Year in Review, Ottawa, January 2009
• "Privileged Communications Between IP Advisors and Clients: The Canadian Perspective and the AIPPI Treaty Proposal," AIPPI 41st World Intellectual Property Congress, Boston, September 2008
• "Intellectual Property Advisor-Client Privileged Communications: Canada and Other Jurisdictions," WIPO/AIPPI Conference on Client Privilege in Intellectual Property Professional Advice, Geneva, Switzerland, May 2008
• "International and Comparative Patent and Trade Secret Protection: The Canadian Perspective," Intellectual Property Law Program, Oxford College, England, 2003, 2005, 2007
• "International Enforcement of Patents: Applications/Implications of Voda," Fourth Annual Intellectual Property Law Seminar, Howard University School of Law, Washington, DC, March 2007
• "Intellectual Property Rights: Practical Advice for the non-IP Practitioner," CCLA Continuing Education Program — Intellectual Property Rights, Ottawa, October 2006
• "Double Patenting and Patent Listing," AstraZeneca Patent Attorneys Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden, October 2006
• "Advocacy Before the Federal Court in Intellectual Property Matters — Trial Advocacy Part II — Examination in Chief," Canadian Bar Association Advocacy Program, Ottawa, May 2006

Memberships

• Patent Agent Director, College of Patent Agents and Trademark Agents (CPATA) Board 
• Fellow and past President, Intellectual Property Institute of Canada; Vice-Chair of the Self-Governance Committee
• Member and Past President of the Canadian Group, International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI); Chairman of the Q199 Attorney-Client Privilege Committee; Member of the Programme Committee
• Member, American Intellectual Property Law Association
• Member, Society of Petroleum Engineers
• Member, Canadian Bar Association

Teaching Activities

• "Exchequer Cup Moot" – Judge for law clerks of the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal, May 2016
• Patent Law, University of Ottawa (since 1995)

• "Top 10 business decisions of 2022-2023", Nova Chemicals Corp v Dow Chemical Co, Lexpert, November 23, 2023
• "Patents, trade marks, copyright and designs in Canada: overview" (co-authors: Sanjay Goorachurn, Daniel Anthony and Jeff Leuschner), Thomson Reuters Practical Law, November 2020
• "IP in business transactions: Canada overview" (co-authors: Sanjay Goorachurn, Daniel Anthony and Jeff Leuschner), Thomson Reuters Practical Law, November 2020
• "Patent Litigation Law Review Fourth  Edition: Canadian Chapter" (co-authors:  Jeremy Want and Daniel Hnatchuk), The Law Reviews, November 2020
• "Patent Protection for Second Medical Uses: Canadian Chapter" (co-authors: Daniel Davies and Lei Liu), AIPPI Law Series, Volume 2, September 2020
• "Privilege and Professional Confidences: An International Review" (co-authors: Jeffrey I. D. Lewis and Jamie-Lynn Kraft), Bloomberg Law, September 2020
• “Patent Litigation 2020 - Canada” (co-authors: Jeremy Want, Daniel Davies and Lei Liu), Chambers Global Practice Guides, February 2020
• "Canada" (co-authors: Jeremy Want and Daniel Hnatchuk), The Patent Litigation Law Review, 3rd ed., Law Business Research Ltd, 2019
• “Canada: Patent Litigation” (co-authors: Jeremy Want and Laura Easton), The Legal 500: Patent Litigation Country Comparative Guide, November 2019
• “Patent Litigation 2019 - Canada” (co-authors: Jeremy Want and Daniel Hnatchuk), Chambers Global Practice Guides, July 2019
• “Patent Litigation in Canada: Overview” (co-authors: Jeremy Want, Daniel Hnatchuk and Matthew Burt),  Practical Law, Thomson Reuters, July 2018
• "Patent Litigation 2018 – Canada,” (co-authors: Jeremy Want, Daniel Davies and Lei Liu),  Chambers Global Practice Guides, February 2018
  
• "Patentable subject matter" (co-authors: Daphne Lainson and Kevin Graham), Canadian Patent Law Benchbook, 2017
• "Patents, trade marks, copyrights and designs in Canada: overview," (co-authors: Sanjay Goorachurn, Andrea Kroetch, Jeff Leuschner) IP in Business Transactions Global Guide 2017, Thomson Reuters, October 2017
• "IP in business transactions: Canada overview," (co-authors: Sanjay Goorachurn, Andrea Kroetch, Jeff Leuschner) IP in Business Transactions Global Guide 2017, Thomson Reuters, October 2017
• "Canada," (co-author: Kevin Graham) The Patent Litigation Law Review, 1st ed., Law Business Research Ltd, 2017
• "Patent Protection for Second Medical Uses: Canada Chapter" (co-authors: Daniel Davies, Dr. Lei Liu), Patent Protection for Second Medical Uses, Wolters Kluwer Law, September 26 2016
• “Global Patent Law Litigation: Canada” (co-author: Kevin K. Graham), Global Patent Litigation: Strategy and Practice, Wolters Kluwer Law, August 2016
• "Patentable subject matter" (co-author: Kevin Graham), Canadian Patent Law Benchbook, 2014
• "Intellectual Property Litigation: Top 10 Differences between Canada and the U.S." (co-author: Jeremy E. Want), Corporate Counsel, January 2014
• "Software Patents Worldwide: Canada" (co-author: Colin Ingram), Software Patents Worldwide, Wolters Kluwer Law, December 2013
• "Patentable subject matter" (co-authors: Daphne Lainson and Kevin Graham), Canadian Patent Law Benchbook, 2012
• "Software Patents Worldwide: Canada" (co-author: Colin Ingram), Software Patents Worldwide, Wolters Kluwer Law, September 2012
• “Business-Method Patent Law in U.S., Canada, Seemingly in Synch” (co-author: Colin Ingram), Executive Counsel, August/September 2012
• "More effective protection for pharmaceuticals" (co-author: Daphne Lainson), Intellectual Property Magazine, July/August 2012
• "The Duty of Candour in Canada" (co-author: Cameron Weir), Canadian Intellectual Property Review, Vol. 27, No. 2 (December 2011), p. 219-256
• "Canada and the duty of candour" (co-authors: Colin Ingram and Cameron Weir), Intellectual Property Magazine, November 2011
• "Amazon.com's 'single action ordering' patent application and the patenting of 'business methods' in Canada" (co-authors: John Morrissey and Colin Ingram), CBA Business & Corporate Bulletin, March 2011
• "An Update on the Scope of Patentable Subject Matter in Canada: The Amazon.com's "single action ordering" patent application and the patenting of "business methods" in Canada" (co-authors: Colin Ingram and John Morrissey), American Bar Association's LANDSLIDE magazine, May/June 2011
• Chapter Update – "Global Patent Litigation: Canada" (co-author: Kevin Graham), Global Patent Litigation: Strategy and Practice, Wolters Kluwer Law, 2011
• "Amazon single action ordering patent and the scope of patentable subject matter in Canada," Intellectual Property Magazine, February 2011
• "Making IP Litigation in Canada More Attractive," Law360, August 7, 2009
• "The Right Dose: Update on the Canadian Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations and Data Protection for Pharmaceuticals in Canada" (co-authors: Sheldon Hamilton and Amelia Choi), Patent World, October 2007
• "Recent Developments Lead to Changing Face (and Pace) of Patent Litigation in Canada," Patent World, 2007
• "Pharma Litigation Continues to Drive Canadian Patent Law," The Guide to the World's Leading Law Practitioners (Canada), 2007
• "Canada: Are Computer-Implemented Inventions Patentable?" World Focus: IP & High Technology, October 2006
• "Global Patent Litigation: Canada" (co-author: Kevin Graham), Global Patent Litigation: Strategy and Practice, Wolters Kluwer Law, June 2006