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Curtis Behmann

Partner

Ottawa
Montréal
CBehmann@blg.com
613.787.3596 | 514.954.2596

Expertise

Roma Leduc

Practice Assistant - Team Leader

Ottawa
rleduc@blg.com
613.787.3558
613.237.0234

Curtis is a professional engineer and registered Canadian and U.S. patent agent. With more than 20 years of experience, he provides strategic, business-focused counsel to innovators and their business partners in both official languages.

Within his practice, Curtis provides IP strategy and drafts and prosecutes high-tech and mechanical patents and industrial designs in Canada, the U.S. and internationally for emerging companies and established businesses in a range of industries. Additionally, Curtis advises entrepreneurs, innovators and corporations on global patent strategy and portfolio management.

Curtis is a member of the Innovation Thought Leadership Committee, chair of BLG’s Ottawa Charitable Donations Committee, and a former member of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee (2008-2018).

Prior to joining BLG, he was a senior patent examiner at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office.

Experience

  • Providing IP strategy and opinions regarding patentability, infringement, validity and IP due diligence issues
  • Patent drafting and prosecution in Canada, U.S. and internationally for emerging companies and established clients in various fields of mechanical and electrical engineering
  • As CIPO patent examiner, examined patent applications relating to emerging Internet and wireless technologies, data-switching networks, fiber-optic networks and related protocols, architectures, software and hardware

Beyond our Walls

Professional Involvement

  • Fellow, and Chair of industrial design practice committee, Intellectual Property Institute of Canada
  • Treasurer, The International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) Canada
  • Chair, Canadian standing committee on copyright and industrial design, AIPPI
  • Member, International standing committee on designs, AIPPI
  • Member, Organizing Committee for 2014 congress in Toronto, AIPPI
  • Member, American Intellectual Property Law Association
  • Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • Member, Professional Engineers Ontario
  • Member, Christian Legal Fellowship

Community Involvement

  • Volunteer, BLG Reads to Kids Program, 2002-present
  • Coach, Nepean Blue Devils Basketball Association, 2017-present
  • Guitarist/song leader, Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, 2013-present

Awards & Recognitions

  • Recognized in the 2021 edition (and since 2021) of Best Lawyers in Canada (Intellectual Property Law).
  • Recognized in the 2020 edition of Intellectual Asset Magazine's IAM Strategy 300, recognizing the top 300 IP strategists in the world.
  • Recognized in the 2019 edition (and since 2014) of Intellectual Asset Magazine's (IAM) Patent 1000 - The World's Leading Patent Professionals (Prosecution - Recommended).
  • Recognized in the 2018 edition (and since 2014) of Managing Intellectual Property's IP Stars (Patent)

Education

  • BSc (Hons.), electrical engineering, University of Ottawa, 1997

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