Area of Practice

All aspects of trade mark, copyright and intellectual property licensing.

Education and Bar Admissions

B.A., Carleton University, 1975
LL.B., Queen's University, 1978

Admitted to the Bar of Ontario, 1980
Registered Canadian Trade Mark Agent

Profile

Cynthia Rowden is a partner at Bereskin & Parr, a barrister and solicitor and a registered trade mark agent. She specializes in all areas of trade mark and copyright law. Much of her practice relates to managing the trademark portfolios of large Canadian companies, and the Canadian portfolios of international companies. Her practice includes Internet related intellectual property issues, such as domain name issues, copyright content issues, and advertising issues arising from Internet commerce.

She is a frequent writer and lecturer on issues involving trade marks, domain names and copyright law in Canada and the United States. Cynthia lectures on advanced trade mark matters at a joint program sponsored by the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada and McGill University, and has been a part-time lecturer in both the LLM in Intellectual Property and E-Commerce courses at Osgoode Hall Law School. She has also lectured on IP issues in a University of Toronto course on web-site development.

In 2006 and 2007, Cynthia was recognized in The International Who’s Who of Trademark Lawyers as being among the top ten most highly-regarded trade mark professionals in the world. She was also selected to appear in the 2008 edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada in the area of IP law and has received particular commendation for her portfolio management work.

Cynthia served as President of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) from 2005 to 2006 and currently chairs IPIC’s Trade Mark Legislation Committee. She has chaired and served on numerous committees involved in trade mark law, Internet and domain name law, and international trade mark protection. Cynthia has been a Director of the International Trademark Association, is a member of the Canadian Bar Association's Trade Mark Committee, and a member of numerous IPIC committees relating to trade mark practice and international trade marks.

Professional Memberships

ALAI Canada
Canadian Bar Association (CBA)
Canadian IT Law Association (IT.Can)
Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC, Fellow)
International Trademark Association (INTA)
Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group (PTMG)
Lawyers’ Club
Toronto Intellectual Property Group (TIPG)
Women’s Law Association of Ontario (WLAO)