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Andrew Sojonky

Partner

Ottawa
[email protected]
613.787.3735

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Clara Luck

Practice Assistant

Ottawa
[email protected]
613.237.0234 x30776

Andrew helps businesses protect their intellectual property for competitive advantage.

Working with clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies, he is committed to securing patent assets with maximum value in Canada and abroad. With an engineering background, over 20 years in the patent field, and top IAM and MIP rankings, Andrew has particular expertise in materials science, energy, clean-tech, mining and metallurgy, and medical devices.

Andrew also has an extensive industrial design practice assisting clients with protecting the aesthetic features of their products.

Within BLG, Andrew is National Group Manager of our Intellectual Property Group.

He is a registered Canadian patent agent in our Ottawa office.

Experience

  • Patent drafting for Fortune 500 companies to Government corporations.
  • Canadian patent prosecution for several Fortune 500 companies and FT Europe 500 companies.
  • Patent opinions for Fortune 500 companies to Government corporations.
  • Managing patent prosecution in over 40 countries.
  • Management of one of Canada’s largest industrial design portfolios.
  • Commissioned study of the feasibility of pyrometallurgical lithium extraction from a confidential compound for McGill University.
  • Study on the prediction of porosity in aluminum casting using mathematical criteria functions for McGill University.

Beyond Our Walls

Professional Involvement

  • Fellow, Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC)
  • Member, Intellectual Property Owners (IPO) Association
  • Past Vice-Chair, IPO Canadian Committee
  • Member, American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)

Community Involvement

  • Volunteer, BLG Reads to Kids
  • Volunteer, United Way Community Action Days
  • Volunteer, Give Back to School Day

Awards & Recognitions

  • Recognized in the most recent edition (and since 2014) of Intellectual Asset Magazine's (IAM) Patent 1000 – The World's Leading Patent Professionals (Patent Prosecution).
  • Recognized in the most recent edition (and since 2014) of Managing Intellectual Property's IP Stars (Patent).

Education

  • Canadian Patent Agent, 2004
  • BSc (Hons.) in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Queen's University, 2000