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shardy@casselsbrock.com

Telephone: 416 869 5384
Fax: 416 646 5501

Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
2100 Scotia Plaza
40 King Street West
Toronto, ON M5H 3C2
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Shane Hardy

Shane's extensive trade-mark practice has seen him act as counsel to a wide range of Canadian and international intellectual property (IP) rights holders and has allowed him to assist in the protection and enforcement of some of the world's most famous trade-marks. Shane's IP practice has also involved the protection and enforcement of copyrights, patents and trade secrets. Shane is frequently retained to assist non-IP lawyers in defence of IP infringement claims. In that regard, Shane recently assisted counsel in Durham Region to successfully defend a long-standing client against an injunction motion. This co-operative and team based approach yields tremendous value and is representative of Shane’s client focused approach to the delivery of legal services.

Shane's experience includes:

• Prosecution of trade-mark applications as a Registered Trade-mark Agent
• Acting for clients in respect of trade-mark oppositions and cancellation proceedings
• Providing opinions to domestic and international clients on trade-mark availability and registrability
• Conducting litigation risk and strategy opinions
• Obtaining, enforcing and licensing intellectual property rights on behalf of well known international retailers, educational service providers, colleges and universities
• Acting as litigation counsel in confidential information, copyright, trade-mark and patent actions in the Ontario and Federal Courts

Shane was Chair of the Dalhousie University Student's Union and graduated from Dalhousie Law School in 2000. Shane was called to the Bar in Ontario in 2002.

Education

LL.B., Dalhousie University, 2000

Achievements

• Registered Trade-Mark Agent

Call to the bar

Ontario, 2002

Associations

• American Bar Association
• Canadian Bar Association
• International Trademark Association
• Intellectual Property Institute of Canada
• Ontario Bar Association
• Toronto Intellectual Property Group

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The Cassels Brock Report - May 2011

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2. Online Trade-mark Use
3. An Ethical Dilemma
4. Data Security – The Case Against Cloud Computing
5. Deal or No Deal: Copyright Protection in Television Formats
6. User Generated Content: Recent Developments in Canada and the US (Article)
7. The Glamorous World of Trade-marks
8. Trade-mark Bullies Revisited

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