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Catherine Phillips-Smith (she, her, hers) Associate | Toronto

About Catherine

Catherine maintains a diversified litigation and dispute resolution practice, with a focus on intellectual property (IP) matters, such as patents, trademarks and copyright issues. 

Catherine has experience managing IP disputes for multinational companies in a broad range of industries, including technology and life sciences. She regularly provides clients with strategic advice on protecting their IP assets and has experience prosecuting trademarks. 

Catherine previously served as a law clerk to the Honourable Justice Donald J. Rennie of the Federal Court of Appeal. While in that role, she assisted with a variety of IP cases. She also gained extensive experience in administrative law during judicial review proceedings before federal boards and tribunals.

Professional Activities

Catherine is a member-at-large of the 2024-2025 Ontario Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division (Central) Section Executive.

Education

Registered Trademark Agent, Canada – 2024
Admitted to the Ontario Bar – 2021
JD (Law and Tech Certificate), Dalhousie University, Schulich School of Law – 2020
MASc (Chemical Engineering), University of Toronto – 2015
BASc (Chemical Engineering), University of Toronto – 2013

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