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Glen Bloom has been a partner in the Ottawa office since 1985. He practices intellectual property law and litigation, primarily copyright, trade-mark and patent matters and frequently appears before the Federal Court, the Federal Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Trade-marks Opposition Board and the Copyright Board.
Glen was Editor in Chief of the Canadian Patent Reporter (1999-2008) and a past president of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (1998–99). He was a founding board member of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority where he served as Vice Chair (2000–2001). From 1989 to 1999 he was an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Common Law of the University Ottawa where he established the faculty’s courses on Intellectual Property Protection of Computer Technology and on Copyright Law. He has also been invited as a speaker at numerous conferences sponsored by the National Judicial Institute, Federal Court of Canada, U.S. Department of Commerce, Law Society of Upper Canada, Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, Canadian Bar Association, University of Ottawa, York University (Toronto), Loyola Law School (Los Angeles), Los Angeles Copyright Society and International Trade-mark Association, among others.
Glen has been recognized for his expertise in both intellectual property and intellectual property litigation in TheCanadianLegal Lexpert Directory(2008), as a leading practitioner in both intellectual property and intellectual property litigation in The Lexpert/American Lawyer Media Guide to the Top 500 Lawyers in Canada (2008), the Lexpert Top 100 Canada-U.S. Litigators (2007), and as a leading practitioner in Chambers Global (2008), Who’s Who Legal Trademarks (2008), The Best Lawyers in Canada (2008), Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Trade Mark Law Practitioners and Global Counsel’s Intellectual Property.
Education
- Queen's University (LL.B., 1978)
- Carleton University (B.A., Honours, Economics, 1974)
Professional Affiliations
- Canadian Bar Association
- Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, Past President
- Copyright Society of the U.S.A., Past Trustee
- Joint Canadian Bar Association/Intellectual Property Institute of Canada Technical Committee Vice-Chair