Practice Expertise
Areas of Practice
- Contracts, Titles, and Due Diligence Reviews
- Copyrights
- Intellectual Property
- Intellectual Property litigation
- Trade-Marks and Domain Names
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WSG Leadership
- Intellectual Property Group - Member
Profile
Partner - Lawyer - Trademark Agent
Geneviève Bergeron is a partner, lawyer and trademark agent in Lavery’s Intellectual Property group. Her practice focuses on all aspects of trademarks, intellectual property transactions, copyright and domain names.
She has extensive experience in trademark matters, from availability searches to filing strategies to registration, in a wide variety of industries. She provides strategic advice and helps numerous companies protect their trademarks abroad.
Her trademark expertise includes litigation, such as opposition and cancellation proceedings, formal notices and the negotiation of coexistence and settlement agreements, as well as the drafting, negotiation and review of commercial contracts, such as licence and assignment agreements.
Geneviève also advises clients on the application of the Charter of the French Language.
Publications- Talk entitled “Élaborer une Stratégie de PU intégrée et à toute épreuve - pour protéger au maximum les actifs des PME avant de pénétrer le marché américain”, Industry Canada workshop, Montréal, March 27, 2014.
- “Révision de la jurisprudence marquantes relative aux noms de domaine .ca à la suite des modifications apportées à la Politique de règlement des différends” (2013), Développements récents en droit de la propriété intellectuelle, Les Éditions Yvon Blais Inc., Vol. 375.
- Talk entitled “La protection de la propriété intellectuelle développée en entreprise par les employés et les travailleurs autonomes”, October 2011.
- “Quelques décisions-clés rendues en 2009 en matière de règlement des différends de noms de domaine .ca” (2009), Intellectual Property Journal, Vol. 21, No. 2.
- “Dot-ca Domain Name Dispute Resolution: Where Do We Stand Five Years After the Implementation of the CIRA Policy?” (2008), Intellectual Property Journal, Vol. 21, No. 2.
- “Language Requirements in Québec Under the Charter of the French Language: What do you need to know” (2008), INTA Bulletin, Vol. 63, No. 10.
- “Règlement des différends .ca : Où en sommes-nous cinq ans après la mise en œuvre de la Politique de l’ACEI” (2007), Développements récents en droit de la propriété intellectuelle, Les Éditions Yvon Blais Inc., Vol. 281
- “Protection des marques notoires et théorie de la dilution : une analyse comparative du droit américain et canadien à la lumière de décisions récentes de la Cour suprême du Canada” (2007), Les Cahiers de propriété intellectuelle, Vol. 19, No. 1.
Education
- Graduate Diploma, Health Law and Policy, Université de Sherbrooke, 1998
- LL.B., Université de Montréal, 1994
Areas of Practice
- Contracts, Titles, and Due Diligence Reviews
- Copyrights
- Intellectual Property
- Intellectual Property litigation
- Trade-Marks and Domain Names
- Trademarks and Domain Names
Professional Career
Articles
- Publication of the Regulation clarifying the obligations of Bill 96: Impacts on trademarks for products, advertising, and public signs and posters
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