Sarah Kilpatrick Associate Ottawa Tel : 613.232.7171 ext. 239 Fax : 613.231.3191 Email : sarah.kilpatrick@mcmillan.ca VCard :

Professional Activities

Sarah Kilpatrick is an associate in the firm's Intellectual Property and Technology Group. Her practice focuses primarily on new media / copyright, trade-marks, domain names and corporate transactions involving IP.

She regularly advises multinational social media companies and broadcasters on copyright issues, including issues arising from the use of music on the Internet. She also represents numerous parties before the Copyright Board of Canada in relation to the certification of copyright tariffs.

Sarah's trade-mark practice focuses on conducting searches, providing opinions and advice on registrability, filing and prosecuting applications, representing clients in opposition and expungement proceedings, and trademark infringement matters, as well as domestic and international trademark portfolio management.

She also regularly advises clients and corporate counsel on transactions involving the transfer or licensing of intellectual property.

Sarah is a Registered Trade-mark Agent in Canada.

Memberships

• Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (Young Practitioners Committee member)
• American Bar Association, International Law Section, Intellectual Property Division Committee Member
• Canadian Bar Association
• Ontario Bar Association
  

June 2012 copyright reform Bill C - 11 intellectual property bulletin/Lexology

January 2012 IP à la carte: A caution for acquisitions involving intellectual property intellectual property bulletin

May 2011 the Supreme Court of Canada clarifies the test for trade-mark confusion in Masterpiece Inc v Alavida Lifestyles intellectual property bulletin

Winter 2011 'Special Circumstances' Test Justifying Judicial Review of Interlocutory Decisions of TMOB Rendered Unclear Where Opponent Seeks to Add Ground of Opposition intellectual property brief winter 2010-2011