Education

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Areas of Practice:

Chantal Desjardins is a senior partner of the firm since 1989 and has been practicing in the intellectual property field since 1981, specializing in the protection of trade-marks, copyrights, industrial designs and related matters. She negotiates licensing and transfer of technology agreements and offers counsel on trade secrets and comparative advertising. Chantal Desjardins also presides over the firm’s trade-mark and licensing department. Chantal Desjardins was appointed Managing Partner of the firm on January 1, 2006.

• Trade-marks and Domain Names
• Intellectual Property, Licensing
  
• Copyrights
• Trade Secrets
• Industrial Designs

Education:

Called to the Quebec Bar in 1985

Diploma in Notarial law, Université de Montréal, 1980

L.L.L., Université de Montréal, 1979

Professional Affiliations:

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Publications:

Desjardins, C., «Are we speaking the same language», INTA Annual Meeting Toronto 2006, May 2006

"Keep an eye on how others use your trademark : a simple authorization is generally not enough!", Newsletter GGData, Vol. 4, no. 4, December 2004

Desjardins, C., "Licence de marques de commerce, Survol des décisions administratives et judiciaires récentes", Développements récents en droit de la propriété intellectuelle, Vol. 215, 2004

"Infringement of Trade-Marks Relating to Products on a Website", Newsletter GGData, Vol. 2, No. 4, December 2001

"Le contrôle en droit canadien des marques de commerce et un second regard sur l'article 50" , Les Cahiers de la propriété intellectuelle, Vol. 14, no 1, 2001

"Drawing the Line Between Comparative Advertising and Third Party Use: Canada", International Trademark Association, San Antonio, 7 May 1997

"Canadian Trademark Practice and Procedure", International Trademark Association, Practice Paper number 3, 1993

"Les derniers développements jurisprudentiels dans le droit des marques", Service de la formation permanente, Quebec Bar Association, Montreal, 1991

Desjardins, C., Tremblay, C., Aide-Mémoire. Marques de commerce, Wilson & Lafleur, 1990

"Pourquoi conserver l'article 49 dans la Loi sur les marques de commerce?" 2 C.I.P.R. 295, 1986

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Conferences:

"Les chemins de la réussite d’une carrière/trouver sa passion : Prendre des risques", Career Women Interaction, Montreal, Quebec, September 2007

"Droits des marques et modèles au Canada et aux États-Unis", Association des Praticiens du Droit des Marques et des Modèles (APRAM), Paris, France, June 2007

"Le point sur les exigences en matière de licences de marques de commerce au Canada : comment faut-il gérer l’utilisation de la marque par d’autres entreprises (y compris à l’intérieur du même regroupement) pour éviter de compromettre leur validité", Regroupement des praticiens du droit des marques de commerce (RPM), Montreal, Quebec, April 2007

"Conflicts : Where and how to draw the line", IPIC 80th Annual Meeting, St. Andrews-by-the-Sea, New Brunswick, September 2006

Speaker “Are we speaking the same language”, INTA Annual Meeting Toronto 2006, May 2006;

President of the second day at the forum on the “Women Leadership”, Canadian Institute, April 2006;

"Women and Technology", "Understanding the current issues", Career Women Interaction, Montreal, Quebec, February 2006

Moderator at the "INTA Emerging Issues Forum", Savannah, Georgie, February 2006

"Pourquoi s’attarder au territoire alors que nous sommes tous citoyens du village global?", The Canadian Institute, June 2005

"Les licenses en marques : une interprétation sclérosée ?". Canadian Bar Association, October 2002

"Mock Cross-Examination", Mid-Term meeting of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, March 2002

"Les aspects légaux de la propriété intellectuelle", presented at the Centre de recherche informatique de Montréal (CRIM), November 2000

"Intellectual Property in the New Millenium. Non-Traditional Trade-Marks. Animated Trade-Marks and Two-Dimensional Get-Up", Annual Meeting Congress of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, Quebec City, September 1999

"Deontology in intellectual property practise", Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, Montreal, November 1997

"Drawing the Line Between Comparative Advertising and Third Party Use: Canada", International Trade-Mark Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, May 1997

"L'avenir de l'adhésion du Canada aux conventions internationales", Quebec City, 1996

"The knock-off", conference organized in conjunction with Goudreau Gage Dubuc and Martineau Walker, Montreal, 1995

"Le licensing au Canada", IRPI Henri-Desbois Intellectual Property Research Institute and Paris Chamber of Commerce, Paris, 1994

"Les derniers développements jurisprudentiels dans le droit des marques", Service de la formation permanente, Quebec Bar Association, Montreal, 1991

"Pourquoi conserver l'article 49 dans la Loi sur les marques de commerce?", London, Ontario, 1986

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Seminars:

President of the second day at the forum on the “Women Leadership”, Canadian Institute, April 2006;

Honorary President of the VI^th "Forum québécois pour les femmes-cadres" organized by the "Institut International de Recherche", January 2001

Workshops on the basic and advanced courses relating to trade-marks. Courses organized by McGill University and the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada

Roundtable guest speaker on various intellectual property subjects for the International Trade-mark Association

Training sessions on trade-marks, copyrights, trade secrets and related topics for various clients

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