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Macera & Jarzyna LLP (Ottawa) This Ottawa firm has litigated a slew of key patent, trademark, and copyright cases since opening its doors in 1978, including Molson Breweries v. John Labatt Ltd., UFCW Canada v. Wal-Mart Canada Corp., C-Cure v. Olympia & York, Kraft Canada Inc. v. Euro Excellence Inc., Dupont v. Ground Control, Spin Master v. Osiris, and Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha v. Lexus Foods Inc. It has a wide range of clients from local inventors to multinational corporations. The firm has been a key advocate for retailers in their battles with the Copyright Board of Canada over levies paid on recording media. The firm now has 17 lawyers and five patent agents, and its sister company, Moffat & Co., is a patent and trade- mark agency firm. JANUARY *An OPD Online Course - Drafting Clearer Contracts January 17 - February 7, 2012 (Online) Upon Marriage Breakdown January 18, 2012 (Live & Online) January 18, 2012 (Live) January 19 - 20, 2012 (Live & Online) January 20, 2012 (Live & Online) *Osgoode's Starts January 23, 2012 (Live & Online) Osgoode's January 23 - 27, 2012 (Live) Reporting January 24 - 25, 2012 (Live) *7 January 27, 2012 (Live) † www.osgoodepd.ca Or Call: 416.597.9724 or 1.888.923.3394 opd-registration@osgoode.yorku.ca Osgoode Professional Development, 1 Dundas Street West, Suite 2600, Toronto Osgoode's Starts January 31, 2012 (Live) * February 8 - 9, 2012 (Live & Online) February 15 - 16, 2012 (Live & Online) † February 16 - 17, 2012 (Live & Online) * February 17, 2012 (Live & Online) *Drafting Clearer Contracts February 23, 2012 (Live) - Vancouver † Board of Directors February 23 - 24, 2012 (Live & Online) February 27 - 28, 2012 (Live & Online) MARCH Osgoode's Starts March 26, 2012 (Live & Online) March 26 - 27, 2012 (Live & Online) Since 1977, this 17-lawyer Vancouver firm has convinced British Columbia's legal com- munity that Ottawa and Toronto aren't the only places to send IP files. Its litigation lawyers have appeared at the Supreme Court of British Columbia, the B.C. Court of Appeal, the Federal Court's trial division, and the Federal Court of Appeal. Lawyers from the firm helmed by Gerald O.S. Oyen, Blake R. Wiggs, and Bruce M. Green have also stood before the Trademarks Opposition and the Patent Appeal boards. A telling web address: www.patentable.com Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala LLP (Vancouver) Priority Service Code: 99-99CL 36 JAN UARY 2012 www. CANADIAN Lawyermag.com ntitled-1 1 11-12-15 8:58 AM www.macerajarzyna.com www.patentable.com Top INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 10 BOUTIQUES