Lara Daniel
Partner

Lara Daniel is a member of our Intellectual Property group. She focuses her practice on various aspects of intellectual property law, namely trade-marks, copyright, domain names and trade secrets. She is a registered trade-mark agent and regularly manages and supervises national and international trade-mark and domain name portfolios for clients. Lara’s practice extends from trade-mark prosecution to opposition and summary expungement proceedings, including drafting opinions in connection with the registrability and availability of trade-marks, representations at hearings before the Trade-mark Opposition Board, and cross-examinations on affidavits. She also advises clients in connection with infringement files in connection with trade-marks, copyrights and domain names before administrative tribunals, provincial and federal courts.

Lara often assists our Commercial Law group with the intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions, including due diligence verifications, drafting of legal opinions and preparing various agreements in relation to intellectual property matters.

She has expertise in drafting distribution, franchise and license agreements, both on a national and international scale. Moreover, she has expertise related to marketing and advertising law, product packaging and labelling, information technology and the requirements of the French Language Charter. Lara often provides guidance to clients in relation to compliance with various federal and provincial policies dealing with these issues.

• Franchising
• Licensing and Technology
• Intellectual Property

• She is currently completing her Master’s degree in Corporate Law at Université de Montréal
• B.C.L., Université de Montréal, 2000

• Registered trade-mark agent
• Member of the International Trademark Association (INTA)
• Member of the INTA’s Non-Traditional Marks Committee
• Member of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC)
• Member of the “IP, Licensing and Technology Practice Group” Committee with Terralex, an international network of independent law firms
• Member of the Canadian Franchise Association
• Member of the Junior Bar Association of Montreal
• Member of the Association de la Jeune Chambre de commerce de Montréal
• Member of the board of directors of the Fondation de la mode de Montréal

• March 2012
  On your mark, get set, register

• March 20, 2012
  Conference - Key Factors of Successful International Expansion