Riel IP Law

About Riel IP Law

Riel IP Law, operating as Riel Professional Corporation, is a solo intellectual property practice in Ottawa. Its principal, Wendy Riel, is a barrister, solicitor, and registered trademark agent who worked as a Senior Trademarks Examiner at the Canadian Trademarks Office before opening the practice. That's the same office where trademark applications get examined, and the firm now applies that background on behalf of clients filing there. The practice covers trademark search opinions, application filing and prosecution, licensing, enforcement, opposition proceedings, post registration matters including summary cancellation proceedings, trademark acquisition, branding strategy, due diligence, counterfeiting issues, copyright, and domain names.

Clients range from multinational and national companies to mid-sized and small businesses and individual entrepreneurs. Riel belongs to the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada and serves on the Trademark Office Practices Committee of the International Trademark Association. The office sits at 411 Roosevelt Avenue in Ottawa's Westboro neighbourhood, where legal assistant Hailey Fowler, a graduate of the Law Clerk program at Algonquin College, has worked since finishing that program.