Participants will be provided with an overview of all forms of intellectual property, including patents, trade-marks, designs, copyright and domain names, with an emphasis on trade-marks and trade-names. There will be a review of what steps should be taken in choosing a trade-mark and trade-name, how to establish and maintain rights in a trade-mark and trade-name, the trade-mark process and some issues to watch for involving third party use. This will be an interactive presentation with a lot of opportunity for questions and answers.

Speaker Bio:

Wendy Riel

Wendy is a Partner and Head of the Intellectual Property Law Group at Low Murchison Radnoff LLP.  Wendy has assisted local, national and international clients in the selection, clearance, acquisition, prosecution and enforcement of trade-marks in a variety of industries for many years.  Prior to entering private practice, Wendy served as a Senior Trade-marks Examiner at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office.