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Stephanie Vaccari

Position

Stephanie Vaccari heads Baker McKenzie's Intellectual Property Tech Practice Group in Toronto. She leads the Toronto office Industrial Design and Transactional IP team and co-leads its IP Portfolio Management and Trademark Enforcement teams. Stephanie also serves as co-chair of Baker McKenzie's Toronto Consumer Goods and Retail Group, its Baker Women's Networking Group and is spearheading the Toronto office's Luxury and Fashion Group. Stephanie is described in the 2018 World Trademarks Review as a lawyer who has “complete mastery of the law and is practical and commercially minded.” She graduated from the University of Western Ontario Law School and received a Bachelor of Sciences degree (Biology Specialist) from the University of Toronto, where she graduated with distinction.

Career

Stephanie advises industry clients on a broad range of IP-related matters. She has extensive trade mark-related experience, has assisted global clients with worldwide trade mark portfolios, and represented them in opposition and cancellation proceedings. She has experience in transactional IP and has also participated in a variety of complex lawsuits dealing with, among others, trade mark and copyright infringement, patent infringement and validity, Internet and domain name issues, licensing, unfair competition and passing off.

Languages

English, French, Italian

Memberships

Canadian Bar Association International Trademark Association (INTA) - Canada Trademark Office Practices Committee (2021) International Trademark Association (INTA) - Non-Traditional Marks Committee (2010-2013 and 2018-present) International Trademark Association (INTA) - Trademark Offices Practices Committee (2014-2017) International Trademark Association (INTA) - Table Topics Committee (2016) Ontario Sports Hall of Fame

Education

University of Western Ontario (LL.B.) (1995) University of Toronto (B.S., Honours) (1992)

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