Ainslie’s practice focuses on drafting and prosecution of patent applications related to life sciences matters, including biologics, diagnostics, plants and plant technology, biotechnology, food and pharmaceuticals. She also advises on patent issues such as validity, infringement and freedom to operate and has expertise in IP licensing.
Ainslie offers strategic advice with respect to plant variety rights and related licensing and prepares and files Plant Breeders’ Rights applications. Ainslie also works on matters involving health-related regulations, including those related to Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations, Certificates of Supplementary Protection, the Patented Medicines Prices Review Board and Food and Drugs Act compliance.
While obtaining her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, Ainslie conducted research directed to identifying the mode-of-action of small molecules using genomic technologies and published her results in the journals Cell and Nature Biotechnology.
Qualifications
- Speaking
- Industry Involvement
- Strategies on When to File, July 24, 2024
- Intellectual Property (IP) Strategy and Funding for Kootenay Businesses, October 25, 2023
- Patent Agent Training Course – Infringement & Validity Module, February 2-4, 2022
- Plant Breeders’ Rights, Copyrights and Trademarks in Canada, December 9, 2020
- 2020 AIPLA Women in IP Virtual Global Networking Event, September 29, 2020
- Gene Editing and CRISPR Technologies, March 11, 2020
- 2019 IPO Annual Meeting, September 24-26, 2019
Memberships
- Law Society of Ontario (LSO)
- Canadian Bar Association (CBA)
- Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC)
- College of Patent Agents and Trademark Agents (CPATA)
Teaching Activities
- "Patent Agent Training Course: Infringement & Validity", Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC), February-April, 2025