TRADEMARK LEADERS
CANADA
Name: Daniel R Bereskin Position: Partner Law firm: Bereskin & Parr LLP
Name: Janice Bereskin Position: Partner Law firm: Bereskin & Parr LLP
Name: Amalia Berg Position: Partner Law firm: Goodmans LLP
Name: Mark Biernacki Position: Partner Law firm: Smart & Biggar
Name: Christian Bolduc Position: Partner Law firm: Smart & Biggar
Name: Mat Brechtel Position: Founding Partner Law firm: Seastone IP LLP
Name: Shelagh Carnegie Position: Co-head - Intellectual Property, Global Law firm: Gowling
Name: Casey Chisick Position: Partner Law firm: Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
Name: Grant R Cansfield Position: Partner Law firm: Aird & Berlis
Name: Jane Caskey Position: Global Head of Risk Advisory Law firm: Norton Rose Fulbright
Name: Brigitte Chan Position: Partner Law firm: Bereskin & Parr LLP
Name: Mina Chana Position: Partner Law firm: Bereskin & Parr LLP
Name: Michel Chartrand Position: Partner Law firm: Gowling WLG LLP
Name: May Cheng Position: Partner / Toronto IP Group Law firm: Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Name: Dino Clarizio Position: Partner Law firm: Goodmans LLP
Name: Marijo Coates Position: Partner Law firm: Deeth Williams Wall LLP
Name: Tania D’Souza-Culora
Position: Lawyer & Co-Founder
Law firm: Seastone IP LLP
Name: Daniel Davies
Position: Partner
Law firm: Smart & Biggar
Name: Douglas N Deeth Position: Founding Member / Managing Partner Law firm: Deeth Williams Wall LLP
Name: Tierney Deluzio Position: Associate and Trademark Agent Law firm: Smart & Biggar Name: Julie Desrosiers Position: Partner Law firm: Fasken
Name: Ronald Dimock Position: Partner Law firm: Gowling WLG LLP
Name: Elizabeth Dipchand Position: Partner Law firm: Dipchand LLP
Name: Jean-Sébastien Dupont
Position: Partner
Law firm: Smart & Biggar
Name: Mark Evans Position: Partner Law firm: Smart & Biggar
Name: Peter Everitt Position: Partner - Intellectual Property Law Lawyer / Patent and Trademark Agent Law firm: Ridout & Maybee
Daniel R Bereskin
Position: Partner
Law firm: Bereskin & Parr LLP
Phone: +1 416 957 1673
Email: dbereskin@bereskinparr.com
Website: www.bereskinparr.com
Daniel R. Bereskin is a founding partner of Bereskin & Parr LLP. He provides strategic planning and business advice relating to all aspects of intellectual property law. Bereskin is renowned throughout the intellectual property field in Canada and abroad and is responsible for managing the trademark portfolios of major multinational clients. Bereskin has served as legal counsel to the International Trademark Association (INTA), and as a member of the INTA Board of Directors. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions throughout his illustrious career.
Janice Bereskin
Position: Partner
Law firm: Bereskin & Parr LLP
Phone: +1 416 957 1601
Email: mgravelle@bereskinparr.com
Website: www.bereskinparr.com
Janice Bereskin is a partner with Bereskin & Parr LLP, leader of the firm’s trademarks practice group and a member of the firm’s executive committee. Her practice focuses on Canadian and international trademarks. She has in-depth experience in search analysis, filing applications, oppositions, and cancellation proceedings. Bereskin manages large trademark portfolios of Canadian and international companies.
She offers clients strategic advice for protecting and managing their trademarks in Canada and abroad. Bereskin is frequently ranked by several legal publications and recognised as a leader in her profession.
Donald M. Cameron
Position: Partner
Law firm: Bereskin & Parr LLP
Phone: +1 416 957 1171
Email: dcameron@bereskinparr.com
Website: www.bereskinparr.com
Donald Cameron is a partner with Bereskin & Parr LLP and a member of the litigation, patents, trademarks and copyright and digital media practice groups. Cameron’s practice focuses on intellectual property litigation, particularly relating to patent, trademark, copyright, trade secrets law and technology licences, as well as trademark prosecution. He also advises clients on the intellectual property aspects of technology licensing. He is certified as a specialist by the Law Society of Ontario (LSO) in intellectual property law (patents, trademarks and copyright) and civil litigation.
Brigitte Chan
Position: Partner
Law firm: Bereskin & Parr LLP
Phone: +1 514 871 2920
Email: bchan@bereskinparr.com
Website: www.bereskinparr.com
Brigitte Chan is a partner with Bereskin & Parr LLP and head of the firm's Montréal office. Chan counsels clients in trademark clearance, prosecution, licensing and enforcement, as well as in industrial design, copyright, domain name and related internet matters. Her practice includes portfolio management of Canadian and international companies, both on a domestic and international level. She provides clients with legal advice and regularly participates in strategic decisions, including brand audits and IP acquisitions. Chan has been involved in reported decisions rendered by the Federal courts in both patent and trademark litigation and has appeared before the Trademarks Opposition Board.
Name: Margaret Fitzpatrick Position: Partner / Trademark Agent Law firm: Gowling WLG LLP
Name: Barry Fong Position: Partner / Intellectual Property Law firm: Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Name: Steven Garland Position: Partner Law firm: Smart & Biggar
Name: A. Kelly Gill Position: Partner Law firm: Gowling WLG
Name: Natalie Giroux Position: President / Présidente, Stratford Intellectual Property Law firm: Stratford Intellectual Property
Name: Sanjay Goorachurn
Position: Partner
Law firm: Smart & Biggar
Name: Francois M Grenier Position: Partner Law firm: Robic
Name: Sharon Groom Position: Partner Law firm: McMillan LLP
Name: Francois Guay Position: Partner Law firm: Smart & Biggar
Name: Shane Hardy Position: Member Law firm: Cozen O'Connor
Name: Ronnie Hoffer Position: Trademark Agent Law firm: Goodmans LLP
Name: Graham Hood Position: Partner Law firm: Smart & Biggar
Name: Patrick Kierans Position: Senior Partner Law firm: Norton Rose Fulbright
Name: Brian Kingwell Position: Partner Law firm: Gowling WLG LLP
Name: Philip Lapin Position: Partner Law firm: Smart & Biggar
Name: Guillaume Lavoie Ste-Marie Position: Senior Associate Law firm: Smart & Biggar
Name: Marie Lussier Position: Counsel Law firm: Chitiz Pathak
Name: Alfred Macchione Position: Equity Partner Law firm: McCarthy Tetrault
Name: Robert MacFarlane Position: Counsel Law firm: Bereskin & Parr LLP
Name: R Scott MacKendrick Position: Partner Law firm: Bereskin & Parr LLP
Name: Eric Macramalla Position: Partner Law firm: Gowling WLG LLP
Name: Robert MacFarlane Position: Counsel Law firm: Bereskin & Parr LLP
Name: R Scott MacKendrick Position: Partner Law firm: Bereskin & Parr LLP
Name: Eric Macramalla Position: Partner Law firm: Gowling WLG LLP
Mina Chana
Position: Partner
Law firm: Bereskin & Parr LLP
Phone: +1 905 817 6106
Email: mchana@bereskinparr.com
Website: www.bereskinparr.com
Mina Chana is a partner with Bereskin & Parr LLP. Mina’s practice focuses on Canadian and international trademark protection. She has extensive experience in trademark clearance and search analysis, filing and prosecuting trademark applications, opposition and expungement proceedings, and trademark protection strategy. She is involved in the management of Canadian and global trademark portfolios of many domestic and international clients. Chana is actively involved with the International Trademark Association (INTA). She has been appointed as vice-chair of INTA’s Law Firm Committee for the 2022-2023 term.
Susan J. Keri
Position: Partner
Law firm: Bereskin & Parr LLP
Phone: +1 416 957 1165
Email: keri@bereskinparr.com
Website: www.bereskinparr.com
Susan J. Keri is a barrister, solicitor, registered trademark agent and partner with Bereskin & Parr LLP. With over 30 years of experience, Keri’s practice extends to all areas of trademark law, including clearance and opinion work, prosecution, opposition, cancellation proceedings, domain name issues, licensing, commercial transactions involving trademark assets, and assisting with the acquisition and maintenance of international trademark portfolios. Her clients include domestic businesses, as well as various multinational corporations, in all industry sectors.
Robert MacFarlane
Position: Counsel
Law firm: Bereskin & Parr LLP
Phone: +1 416 957 1616
Email: rmacfarlane@bereskinparr.com
Website: www.bereskinparr.com
Robert MacFarlane is a counsel with Bereskin & Parr LLP. MacFarlane’s practice focuses on litigation for patent, trademark, copyright, and confidential information cases. He has about 40 years of litigation experience and has appeared in the Ontario Superior Court, the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Federal Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada. He is frequently ranked by several recognised legal publications as one of Canada’s top patent litigators and has been inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
R Scott MacKendrick
Position: Partner
Law firm: Bereskin & Parr LLP
Phone: +1 416 957 1675
Email: smackendrick@bereskinparr.com
Website: www.bereskinparr.com
Scott MacKendrick is a partner with Bereskin & Parr LLP, a member of the firm’s executive committee, and the past chair of the firm’s diversity and inclusion committee. MacKendrick's practices cover all areas of intellectual property law, with a particular focus on litigation. He has represented domestic and multinational clients in patent litigation in pharmaceutical, medical device, chemical, mechanical and software technologies, and has considerable experience in trademark, copyright, industrial design, and trade secret litigation, and in domain name dispute resolution proceedings. Much of his litigation experience has been as part of international teams fighting large multinational IP disputes.
Name: Romain Mallet Position: Vice President, Business Development Law firm: ALTEN Canada
Name: Conor McCourt Position: Partner Law firm: Torys
Name: Peter Milne Position: Partner Law firm: Gowling WLG LLP
Name: Marek Nitoslawski Position: Partner Law firm: Fasken
Name: Evan Nuttall
Position: Partner
Law firm: Smart & Biggar
Name: Cara Parisien Position: Lawyer Law firm: Robic LLP
Name: Anthony Prenol Position: Partner / Lawyer & Trademark & Patent Agent Law firm: CPST Intellectual Property Inc
Name: Sangeetha Punniyamoorthy Position: Partner Intellectual Property Law firm: DLA Piper
Name: Harry Radomski Position: Counsel Law firm: Goodmans LLP
Name: Kavita Ramamoorthy Position: Partner Law firm: Fineberg Ramamoorthy
Name: Tamara Ramsey Position: Partner Law firm: Dale & Lessmann LLP
Name: Natalie Rizkalla Kamel Position: Intellectual Property Lawyer, Partner & Registered Trademark Agent Law firm: Gowling WLG LLP
Name: Andrew Shaughnessy Position: Partner Law firm: Torys
Name: Bob Sotiriadis Position: Lawyer / Trademark Agent & Partner Law firm: Robic
Name: Kohji Suzuki Position: Partner Law firm: Smart & Biggar
Name: Vik Tenekjian Position: Partner Law firm: Gilbert’s Llp
Name: Catherine Thall Dubé Position: Avocate | Lawyer Law firm: Robic LLP
Name: Ekaterina Tsimberis Position: Partner Law firm: Smart & Biggar
Name: Antonio Turco Position: Partner / Lawyer & Trademark Agent Law firm: CPST Intellectual Property Inc
Name: Stephanie Vaccari Position: Managing Partner Law firm: Baker McKenzie
Name: Jeremy Want Position: Partner Law firm: Smart & BiggarLLP
Name: Justine Wiebe Position: Partner Law firm: Borden Ladner Gervais
Name: Donna White Position: Partner Law firm: Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
