Background

Mary Jane Lemenchick is a Partner in the Ottawa Office. Mary Jane has been registered as a Trade-mark Agent since 1989.

Mary Jane is the Regional Practice Group Leader for the Intellectual Property Group in BLG’s Ottawa office.

Areas of practice

• Intellectual Property, specializing in all aspects of trade-mark prosecution, opposition and enforcement including managing and supervising national and international trade-mark portfolios.

Professional Experience

• Trade-mark registrability opinions, prosecution, opposition and summary cancellation proceedings.
• IP Licensing, transfer and security interest issues.
• Expertise in managing and supervising all aspects of national and international trade-mark portfolios.
• Conducting Intellectual Property due diligence in conjunction with corporate asset transactions.
• Advising clients on domain name and e-commerce issues.

Professional and Community Activities

• Fellow Member of Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC).
• Member of International Trade-mark Association (USA)
• Member of Pharmaceutical Trade-mark Group (International)
• Foreign Member of Institute of Trade-mark Agents (UK)
• Member of Women’s Business Network (Ottawa)
• OCRI (Ottawa -Firm Membership)
• Director, Advanced Trade-mark Course (IPIC) McGill University (2000-2002)
• Moderator, Basic Strategies and Pitfalls in International Trade-mark Practice, INTA General Meeting, Washington D.C., May 2002.
• Co-author of CIPO Proposed ‘renovations’ to Canada’s Trade-mark Regime, Lawyers Weekly, April 2005