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C. Donald Brown

Practice Areas

Donald is an intellectual property lawyer whose practice is focused in all areas of intellectual property law including patents, trade-marks, copyrights and industrial designs in addition to IT matters.

Experience

Donald has experience in the following areas:

  • Preparing trade-mark applications, prosecution, opposition
  • Patent drafting, patent prosecution
  • IP/IT litigation
  • Franchise litigation
  • IP assignments
  • License agreements
  • Confidentiality/Non-disclosure agreements
  • Managing international IP portfolios

Professional Activities

Donald is an active member of the following organizations:

  • Ontario Bar Association
  • Canadian Bar Association (National IP Section)
  • Intellectual Property Institute of Canada
    • Member Emerging Issues Committee
    • Member Basics of Law Course Committee
    • Member Editorial Board of the CIPR Committee
  • Toronto Computer Lawyer’s Group
  • Toronto Intellectual Property Group
  • Law Society of Upper Canada

Publications and Seminars

Donald authored the trade-mark section of the Thomson West 2009 publication “Business Laws of Canada” in addition to being a regular contributor to the Quarterly IP Case Summaries for the Canadian Bar Association (National IP Section).

Donald has presented on numerous occasions on issues relating to intellectual property law before the Toronto Board of Trade and the York Technology Association.

Credentials

Donald received his LL.B. from the University of Western Ontario with an area of concentration in Intellectual Property Law, Information and Technology Law, his BEng (Computer Systems Engineering) with high distinction from Carleton University in addition to a BScH (Life Science) from Queen’s University.