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Teresa Reguly

Work Department
Intellectual Property
Position
Teresa’s scientific fluency supports her broad intellectual property skills and business-minded approach, helping clients realize and manage their intellectual property and product regulatory strategy.
Teresa provides ongoing advice to clients who sell regulated products in the food, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries.
She advises on intellectual property and regulatory issues in the chemical, biochemical and pharmaceutical fields, including the validity patentability and infringement of intellectual property rights. Teresa has extensive experience with drafting, filing and prosecuting patent applications and is frequently involved in drafting and negotiating IP licensing, research and development, co-promotion, marketing and confidentiality agreements for her clients.
She also provides guidance on Food and Drugs Act compliance, establishment licensing, product licensing, packaging and labeling, drug pricing and formulary listings. She has deep knowledge in the advertising and promotion of consumer products, food and health products, as well as mandatory reporting and corrective actions.
Her work regularly includes advising clients across industries on privacy issues, cross-border transfer of personal information and compliance with privacy law obligations, particularly involving personal health information.
Teresa is a registered patent agent in Canada. In September 2009, she was awarded for having achieved the highest overall mark in Canada on the 2008 patent agent exams.
Career
Ontario Bar, 2007
Memberships
Teresa worked with the LSUC on an e-Course titled “Privacy Law Basic for Business Lawyers,” which explains the privacy law obligations of a corporation in three situations: on an ongoing basis, in the course of a transaction and upon a privacy breach. It provides a foundation in privacy law for business lawyers of all experience levels.
Teresa is a member of the Toronto Intellectual Property Group, the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (and of the IPIC Licensing Committee), Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) and the American Intellectual Property Law Association. She is also a member of the Food and Drug Law Institute (FDLI) and is a frequent presenter at these events.
Before joining Torys, Teresa was a research associate at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute in Toronto.
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Cannabis
Lawyers at Torys ‘take time to understand the commercial objectives’, according to clients. A strong performer in the medical cannabis field, the team is well versed in regulatory, IP and commercial work, while it additionally leverages its New York office to provide significant cross-border firepower. Life sciences expert Eileen McMahon chairs the IP, agribusiness and food and drug practices and is sought after for her mastery of regulatory issues. Teresa Reguly also specializes in life sciences regulation and IP, with a focus on cannabis, food and controlled drug products. Counsel Yolande Dufresne and senior associate Melanie Sharman Rowand provide support.
Canada > Intellectual property
(Leading partners)IP lawyers at Torys stand out for being ‘very smart in the legal theory but also very practical’. The Toronto-based team strikes a balance between IP litigation and advisory work, with its expertise in the latter area considered particularly formidable. Historically recognized for its capability in transactional support matters, the team also excels in patent and trademark filing, prosecution and strategy; notably, it filed 780 patent and trademark applications during 2023/24. IP chair Eileen McMahon contributes thirty years of experience in IP law, with a focus on patent work. Other non-contentious specialists include Edward Fan, who advises on the acquisition, enforcement and exploitation of IP; Teresa Reguly, who has a focus on life sciences clients; and Michelle Nelles, who specializes in trademark law and branding. Andrew Shaughnessy heads the IP litigation area and recently paired up with Andrew Bernstein — who maintains a broad dispute resolution practice — to represent Sanofi-Aventis Canada in a complex patent case. Nicole Mantini is also noted for litigation.
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