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cdennisbrooks@casselsbrock.com

Telephone: 416 869 5773
Fax: 416 350 6948

Toronto
Suite 2100, Scotia Plaza
40 King Street West
Toronto, ON M5H 3C2
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Catherine M. Dennis Brooks

Catherine is a partner in the Intellectual Property Group at Cassels Brock. She provides advice on intellectual property matters, particularly trade-marks, marketing and advertising law, copyright law, and confidential information. She has appeared before various courts and tribunals.

Catherine assists clients in managing their domestic and international trade-mark portfolios through clearance and prosecution, licensing, opposition and cancellation proceedings and enforcement. She also has considerable experience in transactional work involving intellectual property and commercialization of intellectual property through licensing and distribution agreements.

She also advises major marketers of a wide variety of goods and services with regard to their advertising, promotions, contests, packaging and labelling.

Catherine is an active member of numerous professional organizations relating to intellectual property law, as well as marketing and advertising law. She is a member of the Trade-Mark Licensing Committee of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, the INTA Bulletin Committee of the International Trademark Association, the Intellectual Property Committee of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, and the Marketing Practices Committee of the Canadian Bar Association (Competition Law Section).

Catherine is a graduate of the University of Toronto Law School, and was a Law Clerk to the Chief Justice of the Ontario Court (General Division) from 1992 to 1994.

Education

LL.B., University of Toronto, 1990
B.A., University of Western Ontario, 1987

Achievements

  • Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law
  • 2011 World Trademark Review 1000 list

Call to the bar

Ontario, 1992

Associations

  • Canadian Bar Association (Marketing Practices Committee, Competition Law Section)
  • Canadian Chamber of Commerce (Intellectual Property Committee)
  • Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (Trade-Mark Licensing Committee)
  • International Trademark Association (INTA Bulletin Committee)
  • Licensing Executives Society
  • Ontario Bar Association

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