Annette Latoszewska

Intellectual Property Lawyer, Heer Law

Annette graduated from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. While there, she was an executive member of the Technology and Intellectual Property Group, engaged in bringing current topics and esteemed professionals in intellectual property law to the law school. In her third year she completed an externship with the Structural Genomics Consortium. Her work included the preparation of a freedom to operate opinion assessing the patent landscape as it relates to the use of several candidate chemical compounds for the treatment of childhood cancer, DIPG. Annette’s favourable opinion brought the group one step closer to a treatment for this fatal disease.

Annette returned to Heer Law as an articling student after first joining the firm in 2019 as a summer student. She made the move to intellectual property law to utilize her experience and education in the sciences to help innovators and creative professionals secure protection for their inventions, trademarks and copyright-eligible works. She has a broad intellectual property practice with a focus on trademark protection strategy, prosecution, enforcement and dispute resolution. She provides strategic brand protection advice and enforcement support to clients in a wide array of industries ranging from fashion and entertainment to food and health and has successfully managed global trademark portfolios in as many as twenty jurisdictions, some comprised of more than one hundred individual assets.