Over 60 Years of Experience
Ade & Company Inc. was founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, has been in the business of patents in Western Canada for over 60 years. The firm, comprised of patent agents, acts on patent matters for many direct clients including individuals, small, medium and large companies, Universities and Research Institutions in all provinces of Canada, in the United States and other countries and in many different fields including agricultural engineering, electronics, mechanical engineering, computer science, bio-technology, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, oil & gas, and chemical engineering.
Because of the firm's vast experience in serving many individuals, and small and medium sized companies, our patent agents always endeavor to match actions to the best needs of the customer. In doing so, we have adopted several practices to ensure the strongest patents for our clients while handling matters with the most efficiency to reduce patent costs for our valued customers.
Please contact Ade & Company Inc. for a free initial consultation with one of our patent agents before proceeding with any patent matter or follow our links to see how Ade & Company can accommodate your patent law needs at reduced cost as compared to many larger patent law firms comprised of intellectual property attorneys and patent lawyers.
Ade & Company Inc. can be contacted locally by telephone in Winnipeg (204-947-1429), Calgary (403-277-1045), Edmonton (780-443-2559), Saskatoon (306-477-0462), and Regina (306-565-4626), or Toll Free (1-800-997-1170) anywhere in Manitoba, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Northern Ontario, as well as throughout Canada.
While Ade & Company Inc. is a team of Patent Agents focussing on the business of Patents and particularly in the filing and granting of Patents, they have associations with Trademark Agents, and Intellectual Property attorneys and lawyers in Canada, USA and other countries to enable them to provide a full range of Intellectual Property services.
Ade & Company Inc. practices in association with Battison Williams Dupuis.
- November 2009 - Michael Williams (patent agent) and Kyle Satterthwaite (patent agent) of Ade & Company joined David Carrick (lawyer) of Aikins MacAulay & Thorvaldson LLP in giving intellectual property presentations to students at the University of Manitoba in an evening event put on by CEO (Collegiate Enrepreneurs' Organization) Manitoba. Overviews on different intellectual property types, including patents, industrial designs, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets were presented, with additional commentary on software, business methods and ownership of intellectual property rights.
- August 2009 - In our ongoing efforts to provide cost-efficient patent related services, Ade & Company has recently started using an annuity service for handling of maintenance fee payments on patents and patent applications filed outside Canada and the U.S. In jurisdictions that allow such payments to be made by parties other than the patent agent, patent attorney or patent lawyer of record, this results in very notable savings to our clients by avoiding the often significant proffessional fees that would otherwise be paid to have an overseas patent agent, patent attorney or patent lawyer attend to payment of a maintenance fee to the patent office in question.
- March 2009 - In an appeal decision of potential importance to patent lawyers and patent attorneys , the U.S. Federal Court held that rules that were to be put into force by the United States Patent and Trademark office in 2007 to limit the number of claims allowed in a patent application without a supplemental support document and limit the number of requests for continued examination allowed as a matter of right without justification are within the patent office's procedural rulemaking authority. However, the Federal Circuit agreed with the District Court that the rule limiting the number of continuation applications allowed as a matter of right contradicted the Patent Act, and therefore is invalid. The patent office is not yet implementing the rules, as the matter is being returned to District Court to address other issues concerning the rules that are no longer considered to be invalidated by limitations on the patent office's rulemaking authority. For more information, contact one of our patent agents.
