Fiona Legere is an associate in our Intellectual Property Litigation Group in Toronto. She practices exclusively in the areas of Intellectual Property and Litigation, with an emphasis on pharmaceutical patent litigation.
Ms. Legere received her Bachelor of Medical Science, Honours Specialization in Biochemistry, from the University of Western Ontario in 2006 where she worked as a Research Assistant in a Cardiovascular Genetics Laboratory. She received her JD from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2010 and was the recipient of the Barry D. Torno Memorial Prize for best intellectual property research paper. She was called to the bar in 2011.
Prior to joining the firm as an associate, Ms. Legere was a law clerk to the Federal Court of Canada. She clerked for Justices Snider, Crampton and Boivin and was involved in a number of high profile pharmaceutical patent infringement and injunction cases.
She has a number of scientific and legal publications, including:
ˇ Catherine Lovrics and Fiona Giffen. "Could Canada follow recent U.S. decisions awarding millions for P2P filesharing?" Internet and E-Commerce Law in Canada, October 2009 Volume 10, No. 6
ˇ Ho J., Wang J., Giffen F., Ferreira P., Hegele RA. "A Novel Homozygous Mutation in the Lipoprotein Lipase Gene(G159E) in an Infant with Severe Hypertriglyceridemia." ENDO 2006 (88th Annual Meeting). Boston, June 2006
ˇ Amit R. Rahalkar, Fiona Giffen, Bryan Har, Josephine Ho, Katherine M. Morrison, John Hill, Jian Wang, Robert A. Hegele, and Tisha Joy. "Novel LPL mutations associated with lipoprotein lipase deficiency: Two case reports and a literature review". Can. J. Physiol. Pharmacol. 87: 151-160 (2009)
Ms. Legere is a member of the Toronto Intellectual Property Group (TIPG), the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC), the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC), the Ontario Bar Association (OBA) and the Canadian Bar Association (CBA).