Teresa Ann Reguly

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 is the co-leader of the firm’s Intellectual Property and Food and Drug Regulatory practices. 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 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. Teresa also provides insights into the impact of technological changes, such as the development and utilization of artificial intelligence, on the life sciences industry.

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.