Aird & Berlis | Aird & McBurney Recognized in 2025 Edition of IAM Patent 1000

"Offering a full-service ensemble, Aird & Berlis and Aird & McBurney empower major corporations and entrepreneurs by delivering bespoke solutions to IP-rich challenges, ensuring clients stay ahead of their competitors. Kimberly McManus excels in shaping success, devising optimal plans on claiming, and strengthening and protecting patent portfolios. She pools her chemistry and IP expertise to draft and prosecute highly technical applications for leading industry players. Erica Lowthers is also renowned for her expertise in crafting top-quality applications. She has a comprehensive practice in portfolio management, and provides strategic advice to life sciences and medical device companies on issues related to infringement and validity. Kitt Sinden and Lola Bartoszewicz put client relationships at the forefront of their practice. They offer comprehensive legal, agency and design services that safeguard their patrons’ IP assets and foster market growth. Globally geared strategist Jay Millman harnesses his technical engineering background to effectively communicate with inventors and fully understand their innovations, ensuring robust patent protection. Tim Lowman, Kaitlin Soye and Ryan Evans put the firm’s patent litigation practice on the map. Soye and Evans combine their legal judgment and analytical acumen with their scientific background in experimental medicine and chemical and bio-chemical engineering, respectively, to develop effective solutions for complex IP challenges and confidently apply this knowledge in the courtroom. Lowman is the group’s senior litigator and brings over four decades of experience to the enforcement and defense of patent matters as well as technology transfer agreements and commercial matters. He and Soye recently represented the appellant in the first reported decision of Canada’s Federal Court on the issue of due care in patent reinstatement, and Baker Hughes Company in Federal Court patent invalidity and infringement litigation."