OLLIP P.C.

About OLLIP P.C.

OLLIP P.C. is a small Ottawa law firm that has practiced intellectual property and technology law since 1996. Its office sits in Gladwin Business Park in the city's east end. The firm also lists a Toronto address at First Canadian Place, though it directs all courier deliveries, letter mail, and personal service documents to the Ottawa office. Managing principal Bayo Odutola has practiced IP law for more than 30 years and is a dual certified specialist in trademark and copyright law with the Law Society of Ontario, one of a small number of Ontario lawyers to hold both designations. Odutola co-authored the loose-leaf manual Odutola on Canadian Trademark Practice with Karen Hansen and Sylvie-Emanuelle Bourbonnais. Published by Thomson Reuters and now in its 17th year, the manual has been cited with approval by the Canadian Trademarks Opposition Board and the courts.

The firm's practice covers trademarks, copyrights, industrial designs, IP litigation and arbitration, technology law, commercial transactions, and privacy, cybersecurity, and data protection, for clients that range from individual creators to established corporations. OLLIP also acts as Canadian counsel for foreign applicants filing through the Madrid Protocol, and takes on an articling student every year or two for an eight to ten month term; past students have gone into private practice, government, and academia. The firm runs a pro bono program for clients who can't otherwise afford IP representation.