Lisa Melanson is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault LLP’s Intellectual Property Group. She has more than two decades of experience managing global IP portfolios and leading complex prosecution and regulatory files. Her full-service practice spans the range of IP protection, from patents and designs to trademarks and trade secrets. Building on her previous practice as a litigator, Lisa consults with the IP litigation team on contentious matters, often auditing the IP prosecution work of competing firms at the request of our litigation clients. She also provides IP and regulatory support on large commercial transactions. She is a pioneer of strategic practice at the complex IP/drug-regulatory interface under the Certificate of Supplementary Protection Regulations and the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations.

Nova Scotia Bar, 1997

New York, USA Bar, 2001

Ontario Bar, 2005

Lisa graduated from Dalhousie University with her B.Sc. Hons. (Biology / Neuroscience) in 1992 and her LLB in 1995. She received her LLM from the University of Cambridge in 1998.