Background
Mary Jane is the Regional Practice Group Leader for the Intellectual Property Group in BLG’s Ottawa office.
Areas of practice
- Intellectual Property, specializing in all aspects of trade-mark prosecution, opposition and enforcement including managing and supervising national and international trade-mark portfolios.
Professional Experience
- Trade-mark registrability opinions, prosecution, opposition and summary cancellation proceedings.
- IP Licensing, transfer and security interest issues.
- Expertise in managing and supervising all aspects of national and international trade-mark portfolios.
- Conducting Intellectual Property due diligence in conjunction with corporate asset transactions.
- Advising clients on domain name and e-commerce issues.
Professional and Community Activities
- Fellow Member of Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC).
- Member of International Trade-mark Association (USA)
- Member of Pharmaceutical Trade-mark Group (International)
- Foreign Member of Institute of Trade-mark Agents (UK)
- Member of Women’s Business Network (Ottawa)
- OCRI (Ottawa -Firm Membership)
- Director, Advanced Trade-mark Course (IPIC) McGill University (2000-2002)
- Moderator, Basic Strategies and Pitfalls in International Trade-mark Practice, INTA General Meeting, Washington D.C., May 2002.
- Co-author of CIPO Proposed ‘renovations’ to Canada’s Trade-mark Regime, Lawyers Weekly, April 2005
