Adam Mizera specializes in the drafting and prosecution of patent applications and providing patentability, validity, infringement and freedom to operate opinions in the fields of mechanical engineering, aerospace and robotics.
He also provides advices and opinions on the patentability of inventions, as well as prior art searches to attack the validity of a patent or to help assess possible infringement of a patent. He also provides technical expertise to ROBIC's team of litigators.
He is a registered patent agent in Canada and the United States. Member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec, he was also called to the Québec Bar in 2003.
Adam Mizera's clients are important businesses of all sizes, both Canadian and foreign, in various fields, including:
· Complex mechanics
· Snow removal equipment
· Wind turbine technologies
· Railroad technologies
· Forestry
· Agricultural technologies
· Research and development projects
· Space technologies
· Software technologies
· Simple electronics
· Business methods
As part of an exchange program between ROBIC and the Canadian Space Agency, Adam Mizera worked as a manager in technology transfer. During his experience, he was a strategic counsel on the protection of intellectual property portfolios of the Agency and provided training for employees on various topics, including the patent searches and intellectual property in government contracts. He also worked on various licensing and collaboration agreements between the federal government, the private sector and universities. He is one of the rare intellectual property practitioners who can say that he spent about two hours working in weightlessness.
Always on the lookout for new developments in the areas of intellectual property and technology transfer, Adam Mizera is author of a blog on patents, C'est é-patent.
At ROBIC, he is the coordinator of the patent section of the Intranet and is the assistant editor of the quarterly newsletter.
Associations
- Association québécoise de l'aérospatiale (AQA)
- Canadian Bar Association (CBA)
- Licensing Executives Society USA & Canada (LES)
Publications
One-click? Not so Fast - Amazon.com Goes Back to the Patent Office (2011)
Simple clic? Pas si simple que ça - Amazon.com renvoyée devant le Bureau des brevets (2011)
Les risques de contrefaçon de brevets dans le domaine aérospatial (2010)
Business methods and software still patentable in U.S. following closely-watched Bilski (2010)
Business methods and software still patentable in the U.S. (2010)
Patentability of management software for fleet of vehicles (2010)
Brevetabilité d'un logiciel de gestion de flotte automobile (2010)
Bilski : Business methods and software still patentable in the US (2010)
Bilski : Méthode d'affaires et logiciels toujours brevetables aux États-Unis (2010)
AMAZON.COM : Business methods are patentable in Canada (2010)
AMAZON.COM : Les méthodes d'affaires sont brevetables au Canada (2010)
Obtenir un brevet sur une méthode d'affaires au Canada ne se fait pas simplement en " UN CLIC " (2009)
The patent appeal board in Canada recently rejected amazon.com's patent application covering a business method (2009)
Méthode d'affaires d'amazon.com non brevetable au Canada (2009)
Les propriétaires de dessins industriels se rongeront moins les ongles suite À une décision sur des limes (2008)
Patent fees increase/decrease in Europe (2008)
Hausse/baisse des frais de brevets en Europe (2008)
Copying house plans (2008)
La copie d'un plan de maison (2008)
Supreme Court okays selection patents while refining novelty and obviousness tests (2008)
Définir un critère d'inventivité pour les brevets: ce n'est pas évident (2007)
A Decision by the us Supreme Court Makes New Combinations of Known Technologies More Difficult to Patent (2007)
Une décision de la cour suprÊme des États-Unis rend une nouvelle combinaison de technologies connues plus difficile À breveter (2007)
Trying to define Criteria For Inventiveness of a Patent: It Is Not an Obvious Task (2007)
Définir un critère d'inventivité pour les brevets : ce n'est pas évident (2007)
À la poursuite du dossier de poursuite: les figures supprimées d'un dossier de poursuite de brevet canadien
utilisées comme "publication" pour invalider un brevet américain (2006)
Supreme Court of Canada to Hear Two Landmark Trade-mark Cases in 2005 (2005)
Canadian Court Uses Jurisdiction Simpliciter Test in Domain Name Case (2005)
Être agent de brevets et avocat a ses privilèges? Le secret professionnel pour un avocat agissant comme agent de brevets (2005)
Canadian Government Supports Rehearing in US Blackberry Patent Case (2005)
Clearing One Confusion Before Another: Using the Appropriate Language in a Bilingual Country When Applying a Test for Confusion (2004)
Deux certitudes au Canada : La mort et l'obligation de bien payer ses taxes de maintien de brevet (2004)
La Cour d'appel fédérale bloque l'importation de la procédure Markman au Canada, pour l'instant (2004)
L'Internet et les brevets (2004)
Two Certainties in Canada: Death and the Obligation to Correctly Pay your Patent Maintenance Fees (2004)
Deux certitudes au Canada: La mort et l'obligation de bien payer ses taxes de maintien de brevet (2004)
Predatory Pricing Claim Does Not Fly With Federal Court in Case Involving Free Online Aviation Exam Guides (2004)
Victory for Biotech Companies at the Supreme Court (2003)
Un procès séparé sur l'interprétation des revendications d'un brevet au Canada: La procédure américaine Markman est-elle la bienvenue? (2003)
A Separate Trial on Claim Construction: Is the Markman Proceeding Welcome in Canada? (2003)