Christian Bolduc is a principal in Smart & Biggar’s Montreal office. With more than 25 years of experience across all stages of the trademark life cycle, Christian is passionate about helping clients generate ROI and value from strategically-developed IP assets. Christian’s trademark practice consists primarily of procurement, oppositions and cancellation proceedings, management, strategic counseling and enforcement. He routinely prepares and prosecutes trademark applications and prepares opinions on availability, registrability, validity and infringement. Christian has been listed in The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, The Best Lawyers in Canada, Euromoney's Expert Guides, World Trademark Review 1000, Who's Who Legal: Trademarks and Who's Who Legal: Canada. He is a Fellow of IPIC; past Chair of the International Trademark Issues Committee. Member of INTA (Chair of the Canada subcommittee of the Legislation and Regulation Committee), APRAM and ECTA. BSc (Microbiology); MSc (Microbiology/Immunology); LLB. Registered Trademark Agent. Called to the Quebec Bar in 1994.