Michelle Lou Wassenaar

First Year of Call
1994

Areas of Practice
Intellectual Property

Description
Michelle is the Director and founder of Method Law Professional Corporation, an intellectual property agency and litigation firm. She is a lawyer, a registered patent agent and a registered trade-mark agent. She was called to the Ontario Bar in 1994, and has appeared before the Federal Court, the Federal Court of Appeal, and the Trade-marks Opposition Board. She has also represented clients in ICANN domain name dispute proceedings before WIPO and NAF.

Michelle has represented and advised multinational and domestic clients on patent, trade-mark, industrial design and copyright law, particularly in the pharmaceutical, life sciences, mechanical and consumer goods industries.

Michelle received her Juris Doctor law degree (J.D.) in 1992; a Master of Science (Clinical Biochemistry) in 1990; and a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. Biochemistry/Microbiology, Honours, High Distinction) in 1987; all from the University of Toronto.

Michelle can be contacted at michelle@methodlaw.ca; by telephone at (416) 847-0054 ext. 222; and by facsimile at (416) 847-0083.