Clare McCurley is an associate of the firm. She practises intellectual property law with an emphasis on biotechnology and health sciences.

E-mail: cmccurley@dww.com
Telephone: 416-941-9065

Practice Areas

Clare practises intellectual property law with an emphasis on biotechnology and health sciences. She specializes in patent drafting and prosecution covering a broad range of subject areas, and also has experience in trade-mark prosecution, intellectual property litigation, as well as proceedings under the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations.

Organizations

Clare is a member of the Canadian Bar Association, the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, the Toronto Intellectual Property Group, and the American Intellectual Property Law Association.

Credentials

Clare received her Honours B.Sc. in Biology from Queen’s University, her M.Sc. in Zoology from the University of Western Ontario, and her LL.B. from the University of Calgary.

Her Master’s work appears in a joint paper entitled McCurley CR, Shivers RR & Del Maestro RF, “Quantitative comparison of the morphology of the microvasculature of primary lung lesions and metastatic brain tumours”, J Submicrosc Cytol Pathol., vol. 30(2), pp. 257-269, April 1998.

Clare articled with DWW and joined the firm as an associate upon her call to the Ontario Bar in July 2004.