Julie Desrosiers

Julie Desrosiers is Leader of the National Technology and Intellectual Property Practice Group. She is also the Montréal chair of Fasken Martineau's Intellectual Property Litigation Group and co-lead counsel in NOC cases.  She works mainly on cases involving copyrights, trademarks and patents. She has developed a particular expertise in the protection of financial, commercial and strategic trade secrets and confidential information.

Mtre Desrosiers regularly acts on behalf of high technology businesses in connection with injunctions, seizures and procedures seeking to protect elements of their intellectual property or their trade secrets and strategic information. She is regularly consulted in all types of cases relating to trademarks, infringement and patent validity. She often pleads before the courts at both the trial and appellate levels, as well as before administrative tribunals and the Federal Court.

In 2005, she represented ADISQ and several other Canadian disk manufacturers in Anton Piller proceedings aimed at stopping sales of pirated compact disks at Québec flea markets. She also represented the Canadian Cancer Society in litigations concerning the validity of the Tobacco Act that went all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada. Furthermore, she was involved in several disputes over the validity and infringement of pharmaceutical patents. She regularly represents pharmaceutical companies in prohibition proceedings directed at preventing the Minister of Health from issuing notices of compliance allowing the sale of generic drugs. Her clients include a large number of high technology businesses whom she advises regularly on all kinds of matters pertaining to the protection of their intellectual property and e-commerce elements.

Selected Experience

• Federal Court of Canada rules that Bell Helicopter infringed a Eurocopter patent
• Lundbeck Canada wins patent case before the Federal Court of Appeal

News

• The Gazette writes about our IP team's victory in a drug patent case
• Victory for Fasken Martineau's Intellectual Property Group: Federal Court of Appeal finds in favour of our clients

Publications

• The law of trade secrets in Quebec and in Canada: A pragmatic approach
• Implied Licence Exists for Copyrights

Presentations

• Fasken Martineau Training Day Program
• Montréal Fasken Martineau Symposium (3rd Edition)

Honours and Awards