Executive summary

Diana specializes in intellectual property law, with a focus on IP transactions, intellectual asset management, and all aspects of trademark law. She advises clients on the acquisition, maintenance, protection, and enforcement of their IP rights, helping them build and safeguard valuable brands.

Diana has extensive experience developing global strategies for trademark protection, enforcement, and portfolio management. She guides clients through searching, clearing, filing, and registering trademarks and domain names, and represents them in opposition and cancellation proceedings, dispute resolution, infringement matters, and related litigation. Her practice also includes providing transactional advice and conducting IP due diligence for mergers, acquisitions, and financing transactions. Diana regularly negotiates and drafts a wide range of IP-related agreements, including licensing arrangements, joint ventures, research and development agreements, assignments, confidentiality agreements, material transfer agreements, and outsourcing or service contracts.

Expertise

Education

University of Windsor, LLB, 1998

Wilfred Laurier University, MBA, 1995

Dalhousie University, BSc, 1991

Bar admission

Ontario, 2000

Nova Scotia, 1999

Insights

Presentations

  • Pfizer Products Inc. v. Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association, 2015 FC 493 (T-733-13) – 9 June 2015
  • Is your Company conducting or intending to conduct business in Quebec? – 2 July 2014
  • Significant Changes to the Canadian Trade-marks Act – 2 July 2014

Memberships and recognition

Professional memberships

  • Law Society of Ontario
  • Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society
  • Licensing Executives’ Society, USA and Canada
  • Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC), Trademark Legislation Committee
  • International Trademark Association (INTA), Parallel Imports Committee
  • Canadian Bar Association, Intellectual Property Law Section
  • American Bar Association, Intellectual Property Law Section

Recognition

  • Best Lawyers in Canada – 2021-2027 (Corporate and Commercial Litigation)

Community engagement

  • Vice President and Board Member, Brantford Golf and Country Club (2024-Present)