About the Authors
Neil Melliship
Neil is the Intellectual Property group chair at the Canadian Law Firm Clark Wilson LLP. Neil is a registered Trade-mark Agent, who actively speaks and writes on IP issues relating to the Internet, domain name disputes and e-commerce.
Larry Munn
Larry is the Privacy Law chair at Clark Wilson LLP and a member of the firm's Business Litigation group. His business litigation practice focuses on commercial matters, including trade-mark and licensing issues, and complex trade-mark disputes.
Karen Monteith
Karen is a Registered Trade-mark Agent with Clark Wilson's Intellectual Property group. Karen's practice includes searching and clearing trade-marks; drafting, filing and prosecuting trade-mark applications and initiating opposition and expungement proceedings.
Seva Batkin
Seva is an associate with Clark Wilson LLP's Business Litigation and Intellectual Property groups. His multi-faceted legal experience covers the areas of business and intellectual property litigation, intellectual property licensing and trade-marks, corporate taxation and personal injury litigation.
Jeffrey Vicq
Jeffrey is a lawyer with Clark Wilson LLP, where he is a member of the Intellectual Property law group. A registered Canadian Trade-mark Agent, Jeffrey has written and spoken extensively on IP and privacy law issues relating to the Internet and to e-commerce in Canada. In addition to trade-mark prosecution, Jeffrey's practice includes hardware and software development, licensing, distribution, outsourcing, maintenance and purchase contracts, and related information technology matters.
Jeff Morton
Jeff is an associate with the firm's Technology and Intellectual Property Groups. In addition to being a registered Canadian Trade-mark Agent, Jeff's practice focuses on the commercialization of intellectual property rights through licensing and other commercial agreements, with a particular focus on the life sciences and biotechnology sectors. He is also involved in the prosecution and enforcement of patent rights.