Andrea specializes in brand management, commercialization and enforcement of rights in intellectual, intangible property and data. She has expertise before the Trademarks Opposition and Copyright Boards, Federal and Supreme Court of Canada. Recent recipient of the Long Term Achievement Award from the Law Society of Ontario; former recipient of the Charles Seton award from the Copyright Society of the USA, and Duff Rinfret Scholarship (Justice, Canada). Andrea has taught at Osgoode Hall Law School (LLM, e-commerce) and OCAD University (IP), Trustee CSUSA, INTA Panel of Neutrals, WIPO Mediation Centre, and served on a NAFTA business services SAGIT (sectoral advisory group on international trade). She has also served on Stanford University's Advisory Program on Law Science and Technology and the Technion University International Board of Governors. Certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a specialist in Copyright and Trademark Law and a registered patent and trademark agent, Andrea chairs ALAI Toronto, and is a past Chair of the Law Society Specialist Certification Board, and the Law Society IP Year in Review.
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Andrea Rush
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Recognized Since:2015
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Recognized in:Information Technology LawIntellectual Property Law
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Law School:University of Ottawa
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Location:2 Queen Street East, Suite 1500Toronto, ON M5C 3G5
Andrea specializes in brand management, commercialization and enforcement of rights in intellectual, intangible property and data. She has expertise before the Trademarks Opposition and Copyright Boards, Federal and Supreme Court of Canada. Recent recipient of the Long Term Achievement Award from the Law Society of Ontario; former recipient of the Charles Seton award from the Copyright Society of the USA, and Duff Rinfret Scholarship (Justice, Canada). Andrea has taught at Osgoode Hall Law School (LLM, e-commerce) and OCAD University (IP), Trustee CSUSA, INTA Panel of Neutrals, WIPO Mediation Centre, and served on a NAFTA business services SAGIT (sectoral advisory group on international trade). She has also served on Stanford University's Advisory Program on Law Science and Technology and the Technion University International Board of Governors. Certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a specialist in Copyright and Trademark Law and a registered patent and trademark agent, Andrea chairs ALAI Toronto, and is a past Chair of the Law Society Specialist Certification Board, and the Law Society IP Year in Review.
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Education:
- University of Ottawa, LL.M., Computer Software, graduated 1985
- McGill University, LL.B., B.C.L. , graduated 1982
- McGill University, B.Mus., graduated 1978
- McGill University, L.Mus., graduated 1978
Bar Admissions:
- Ontario, 1985
- Quebec, 1986
Affiliations:
- Law Society of Ontario, IP Year in Review - Chair
- ITechLaw Membership Women's International Network (I-WIN) Committee, 2016-17 term - Co-Chair
- Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale (ALAI Canada) - Member
- Canadian IT Law Association (IT.Can) - Member
- Canadian National Association of the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI Canada) - Member
- Computer Law Association - Member
- Copyright Society of the U.S.A. - Member
- Intellectual Property Institute of Canada - Member
- International Trademark Association - Member
- Scarlet Key Society - Member
- ABA Copyright Cross-Jurisdiction Subcommittee - Chair
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada for work in:
- Information Technology Law
- Intellectual Property Law
Awards:
- Certified by the Law Society of Ontario as a Specialist in Copyright and Trademark Law
- Intellectual Property - Band 4, Chambers Canada, 2019
- Intellectual Property Litigation (repeatedly recommended), Lexpert® Canadian Legal Directory 2019
- Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology Law, Best Lawyers in Canada® 2019
- Expert Guides' Women in Business Law 2019
- Enforcement & Litigation and Prosecution & Strategy, World Trade-Mark Review (WTR) 1000, 2019
- Intellectual Property - Band 4, Chambers Global, The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, 2017
- Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law - Trade marks, 2017
- Listed in Who's Who Legal: Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (Information Technology), and Who's Who Legal: Trademarks, 2017
- Listed in Who's Who Legal Canada: Technology, Media, and Telecommunications, 2017
- Continuing Professional Development and Long-Term Achievement Award 2015, Law Society of Ontario
- Euromoney's Trade mark Expert Guides, 2016
- Trade-marks, International Who's Who of Trademark Lawyers, 2015
- Guide to the World’s Leading Lawyers, 2014
- Guide to the World’s Leading Trade Mark Law Practitioners, 2014
- IAM Strategy 300, The World’s Leading IP Strategists, 2014
- BV® Distinguished™, Martindale Hubbell
- Charles Seton Award, Copyright Society of the USA
- Duff Rinfret Scholar, Department of Justice, Canada
- Scarlet Key, McGill University
- Eastern Provincial Airlines Prize, McGill University
- Steinberg Scholarship, McGill University
- INTA's Panel of Trademark Mediators (PTM)
- Appointment to the WIPO Center, List of Mediators and Arbitrators
- Appointment to The Canadian Institute's Intellectual Property Law Review Editorial Board
- Appointment to INTA's Anticounterfeiting Committee
Firm Details
Blaney McMurtry LLP
https://www.blaney.com
Headquarters
2 Queen Street East, Suite 1500
Toronto, ON M5C 3G5
416-593-1221
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