Leah McGurn

Leah McGurn

Associate, Intellectual Property

Contact Information

lmcgurn@osler.com

tel: 613.787.1023

Office

Ottawa

Areas of Expertise

Bar Admission

  • Ontario, 2021

Education

  • University of Toronto, J.D. (2020)
  • University of Saskatchewan, M.Sc.
  • University of Guelph, B.Sc. Hons.  

Language(s)

English

Leah practices intellectual property law, with a focus on patent litigation.

Leah received her Juris Doctor from the University of Toronto, where she completed an externship with the Structural Genomics Consortium. Leah competed in the Copyright Policy Moot 2020 where she won Best Policy Briefing and Best Memorandum to Cabinet with her partner.

Leah is a trained scientist and worked as a chemist for Apotex Inc. prior to law school. Leah completed her Master of Science in Toxicology at the University of Saskatchewan and an Honours Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry at the University of Guelph. While at the University of Saskatchewan, Leah obtained two NSERC CREATE program certificates in Human and Environmental Risk Assessment and Integrated Training Program in Infectious Disease, Food Safety and Public Policy.  

Leah joined the firm as a summer student in 2018 and 2019 and completed her articles with the firm in 2020-2021. She returned to the firm as an Associate in 2021.

  • Awesense

    Awesense in its successful defence of a patent infringement action brought by dTechs EPM Ltd.

  • Find More

  • Leah McGurn, Secoisolariciresinol (SECO) analogues :oxidative metabolism, cytochrome P450 inhibition and implications for toxicity (2016) Saskatoon: University of Saskatchewan. 

  • McGurn, L. D. et al., The structure, kinetics and interactions of the β-carboxysomal β-carbonic anhydrase, CcaA. Biochem. J. 473(24) 2016 December