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Paul Blanchard is a partner in Gowlings' Ottawa office. An expert in intellectual property law, Paul's practice includes an emphasis on trade mark counseling and litigation, product labeling and advertising, technology transfers and licensing, food and drug regulations, access to information, and trade secrets. He became a registered Trade Mark Agent in 1980.
Paul is an advocate before the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Courts of Canada, the Ontario Courts of Justice, and the Canadian Trademark Opposition Board. He has been a patron of the Canadian Institute for Conflict Resolution.
During his years of practice, Paul has accumulated extensive experience in government relations and is a published author and lecturer on Canadian access to information, trade marks, trade secrets, food and drug regulations, and copyright laws. Among other activities, he has been a frequent panelist on intellectual property subjects in Canada and the U.S.A. Paul is co-author of “The BARBIE case: The Supreme Court of Canada Restates the Law on Trade-mark Confusion”, 96 TMR 1034 (2006), Canada Anti-counterfeiting Update" published in INTA's 2006 BULLETIN, co-author of a chapter on intellectual property in the Financial Post's Canadian Trade and Investment Guide; the author of Federal Access to Information and Privacy Legislation; co-author of The Regulations of Drug Advertising: The Times They Are a Changing; and the author of a chapter in Trademarks Copyrights, and Unfair Competition for The General Practitioner, published in Washington, D.C. by The American Law Institute. |
