Carbon Patent Group

About Carbon Patent Group

Carbon Patent Group is a patent-only practice, registered as C6 Patent Group Inc. and doing business under the Carbon Patent Group name. Graham McKinnon founded what became the group in 2010, after more than seven years at another Canadian intellectual property firm and three years as an in-house patent agent for a drug-development company and a generic pharmaceutical manufacturer. The group has no single storefront office. Its four patent agents work out of Toronto, Vancouver, Kelowna, and Nanaimo, coordinated through a mailing address in Bradford, Ontario, and each one is registered to practice as a patent agent in both Canada and the United States.

The practice covers patent searching, drafting, prosecution, and portfolio management, along with industrial design filings and patentability, validity, and infringement opinions. Individual patent agents focus on different technical fields: electrical, mechanical, and software inventions; applied physics, medical devices, and computer-related technologies; life sciences and pharmaceuticals; and chemistry, drug delivery, and genomics. The group works with foreign agents on filings outside Canada, and in the inaugural 2025 edition of Best Lawyers' Best Law Firms in Canada it received a Metropolitan Tier 1 ranking for Intellectual Property Law in Vancouver.