Sarah Malik

Sarah is a Canadian Intellectual Property Specialist with over 15 years of industry experience in Intellectual Property Law in Canada, dealing with both Canadian and US patent practice. She joined KIPA as a Patent Attorney, in August of 2024.

Sarah began her career as a Patent Examiner at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), soon after graduation from the University of Toronto, with a degree in Applied Sciences and Engineering (B.A.Sc.). Prior to joining KIPA, she was part of the in-house legal team at Baylis Medical Company, Ontario, Canada, as a Senior Intellectual Property Associate with a tenure of 12 years of service, where she worked on a multitude of products with a focus on Cardiovascular devices for left-heart access, minimally invasive radio-frequency devices, and accessories including generators. In addition to these product lines, she also worked for Anchor Orthopedics on the spinal orthopedics product line. Her practice has focused on patent portfolio development, in the area of medical devices, biomedical, electromechanical, and mechanical engineering technology in the medical field. She has experience drafting patent applications, creating IP portfolios and taking them to grant, namely PCT applications, US provisional and utility filings, European (EU) national entry filings and prosecution, as well as national entry filings and prosecution in other jurisdictions such as Japan, China, Australia, and Brazil.

Over the course of her career, she has participated in many patent portfolio development initiatives, ranging from conducting searches such as patentability and freedom to operate searches, developing patent families of already commercialized products to developing provisional applications for new prototypes and proof of concept devices. She has experience in monitoring third party patents. She has extensive experience in developing IP as products go from ideation and concept phase to commercialization. She has extensive patent searching, analytics and patent landscape experience.

In her tenure at Baylis Medical, Sarah also dealt with Trademarks. She has several years of experience with Trademarks filing and prosecution. She has experience with conducting knockoff trademark searches for US marks, assessing proposed product names by marketing for trademark purposes, US ITU Filings and SOU filings and amendments of G&S listings, as well as coordinating filings and trademark prosecution in other jurisdictions such as Japan, China, Brazil, and Australia among others.

After working at Baylis Medical, Sarah then went on to work at Marks & Clark, Canada, and Dentons LLP, Canada, prior to joining KIPA.  Her practice focused on medical devices, biomedical, electromechanical, and mechanical engineering technology sectors, manufacturing, optics, telecommunications, electrical and mechanical technologies, and aerospace engineering. She had the opportunity to develop patent portfolios and work on Office Action responses in a multitude of Technology Areas.

Sarah looks forward to working at KIPA and grow in her career as a Patent Attorney.