WIPR Influential Women in IP RV

22 Influential women WIPR Influential Women in IP 2019 www.worldipreview.com Janice Bereskin PARTNER, BERESKIN & PARR, CANADA Janice Bereskin is a partner with Bereskin & Parr and a co-leader of the firm’s trademarks practice group. Her practice focuses on Canadian and international trademarks. She has in-depth experience in search analysis, filing applications, oppositions and cancellation proceedings. Bereskin manages large trademark portfolios of Canadian and international companies and offers clients strategic advice for protecting and managing their trademarks in Canada and abroad. As an active member of INTA, Bereskin has served on its board of directors and cochaired an INTA Presidential Task Force. In 2015, INTA honoured her with the volunteer service award in the advancement of the association. Currently, Bereskin is a member of the leadership development committee. Nola Bond DIRECTOR, KISCH IP, SOUTH AFRICA Nola Bond is a director and the head of the trademark department at Kisch IP. With more than 26 years of experience in intellectual property, Bond is able to provide the full scope of trademark services to clients from prosecution through to enforcement. She is also experienced in copyright law, domain name disputes, advertising law and portfolio management. She is an attorney of the High Court of South Africa and a qualified trademark practitioner. She is also a member of the South African Institute for Intellectual Property Law and an appointed domain name dispute adjudicator for the .co.za domain. She is a regular INTA attendee and member of PTMG. Virginia Carron PARTNER, FINNEGAN, US For the past two decades Virginia Carron has practised IP law out of Finnegan’s Atlanta, Georgia office. She is now the firm’s managing partner in Atlanta, where her work focuses on patent and trademark counselling and litigation. In addition to her litigation work, Carron advises clients on IP licensing and related transactions. She has particular expertise in the consumer products industry, having represented food and beverage brands, chemical companies, and cigar manufacturers. She is currently representing Nestlé in multiple inter partes reviews involving patents covering foodstuff packaging. Ana Castañeda PARTNER, HEAD OF PATENT AND TRADEMARK DEPARTMENT, C&L ATTORNEYS, MEXICO Ana Castañeda is an attorney-at-law with a technical background as an electronic engineer and founder of C&L Attorneys. She has experience in all areas of intellectual property law. She specialises in trademarks, such as search opinions, filing, prosecution, and renewal of registrations, in Mexico and Latin America. Castañeda also has experience in patents, including searching, drafting specifications, filing and prosecuting applications, maintaining patent rights after grant, providing opinions, as well as filing applications under international treaties including the PCT. She is a member of INTA, LES, and is the founder of the Mexican Association of Entrepreneurial Women. Karin Cederlund PARTNER, SANDART & PARTNERS, SWEDEN Karin Cederlund specialises in intellectual property and advertising law. She focuses her experience on litigation and the drafting and negotiating of contracts within these areas. For several years, Cederlund has been a member of the board of the Swedish Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property and on the board of the Institute of Intellectual Property and Marketing Law at the Stockholm University. Cederlund has been an expert in the Swedish legislative committees on copyright. She achieved her LLM from Stockholm University in 1992 and also has an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics. She is a member of the Swedish Bar Association, INTA, LES, and the Swedish Copyright Association. Dale Cendali PARTNER, KIRKLAND & ELLIS, US Dale Cendali is a partner at Kirkland & Ellis and the head of its copyright, trademark, internet and advertising group. During her 30-year career, she has counselled clients on disputes involving all forms of intellectual property, and has litigated some of the most high-profile cases in the country. Among her litigation experiences, she has argued before the US Supreme Court, procured and defeated multiple injunction requests, and won numerous cases on summary judgment and at trial. Of note, she won the well-publicised ‘Lexicon’ fair use case for her long-time client J.K. Rowling. She also is an adjunct professor at Harvard Law School, where she teaches copyright and trademark litigation.