Canada’s Intellectual Property Firm

Janice M. Bereskin

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Janice M. Bereskin

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Principal
  • Smart & Biggar LP
Language(s): English

Janice’s practice focuses on Canadian and international trademarks. She has in-depth experience in search analysis, filing applications, oppositions and cancellation proceedings. Janice manages large trademark portfolios of Canadian and international companies and portfolio management. She offers clients strategic advice for protecting and managing their trademarks in Canada and abroad.

Janice was a recipient of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) Education Foundation Prize for achieving the highest mark overall in the Canadian Trade-mark Agent Examination and has also completed the Intellectual Property Summer Institute (IPSI) program at the Franklin Pierce Law Centre. In 2020, she was named one of the Top 250 leading female IP practitioners by Managing IP.

Janice previously served on INTA’s Board of Directors and co-chaired an INTA Presidential Task Force and she is currently a member of INTA’s Professional Development Committee. In 2015, INTA honoured Janice with the Volunteer Service Award in the Advancement of the Association.

Qualifications

  • News
  • Speaking
  • Industry Involvement
  • In the Media
  • INTA North America Roundtable, March 28, 2024
  • Mid-Career Motivation, November 15, 2022
  • Keeping Clients Happy: Keys to Professional Success, August 18, 2022
  • AIPLA Women in IP Law 2022 Global Networking Event, April 7, 2022
  • 2020 AIPLA Women in IP Virtual Global Networking Event, September 29, 2020
  • Borders: International, National and Local Cooperation to Keep the Flow of Counterfeits Out, September 18, 2019
  • Young Practitioners & Trademark Administrators Roundtable and Reception, September 12, 2019
  • INTA 141st Annual Meeting, May 18-22, 2019
  • INTA Roundtable: Canadian Trademark Reform, April 10-11, 2019
  • McCarthy Institute Symposium 2019 at NYU: Trademark Law and Its Challenges, February 1, 2019
  • 2018 Midwest IP Institute, September 27, 2018
  • INTA Roundtable: Canadian Update on Trademark Law for U.S. Practitioners, September 21, 2018
  • INTA Roundtable: Canadian Update on Trademark Law for U.S. Practitioners, September 20, 2018

Memberships

  • Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC), Fellow
  • International Trademark Association (INTA)
  • College of Patent Agents and Trademark Agents (CPATA)