Curtis Behmann

Partner & National Leader, IP Strategy

Ottawa
Montréal
CBehmann@blg.com
613.787.3596
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Curtis is passionate about innovation, design, technology and intellectual property strategy. Innovative companies, their investors and advisors trust Curtis to help them strengthen their competitive advantage and create barriers to entry for competitors. He works with clients in areas from telecommunications and medical devices to autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence and 3D printing.

He has developed an innovative suite of strategic intellectual property advisory services, to help companies use IP to drive business success.

Curtis, one of the top 300 IP strategists in the world according to the IAM Strategy 300, is a professional engineer, registered patent agent and design expert. His more than 20 years’ experience brings a unique combination of deep expertise and board-level strategic insights to startups, scale-ups and world-leading multinationals. Companies rely on Curtis’ strategic thinking, curiosity, problem solving expertise and investment in long-term relationships.

Testimonials

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Experience

  • Trusted advisor to an American multinational medical technologies corporation for more than 10 years, providing patent and industrial design prosecution counselling and guidance.
  • Advised an investment fund focused on innovative companies, developing a playbook and framework for assessing company IP maturity and negotiating IP clauses in funding agreements.
  • Advising a stealth-mode start-up working on silicon, hardware and machine learning with a patent landscape review, patent assessment and application filing, including advising co-founders on risk assessment.

Beyond our Walls

Professional Involvement

  • Board of Directors, Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC)
  • Secretary, AIPPI Canada
  • Canadian representative, International Standing Committee on Design, AIPPI (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property)
  • Chair, Canada’s Industrial Design Practice Committee
  • 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 2024 edition (and since 2014) of Intellectual Asset Magazine's (IAM) Patent 1000 - The World's Leading Patent Professionals (Prosecution - Recommended).
  • Recognized in the 2024, 2023, 2021 and 2020 editions of Intellectual Asset Magazine's IAM Strategy 300, recognizing the top 300 IP strategists in the world.
  • Recognized in the 2022 edition (and since 2014) of Managing Intellectual Property's IP Stars (Patent).
  • Recognized in the 2021 edition (and since 2020) of Best Lawyers in Canada (Intellectual Property Law).

Education

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