Stephanie Vaccari

Practice Areas

Stephanie Vaccari heads Baker McKenzie's Intellectual Property Tech Practice Group in Toronto. She leads the Toronto office Industrial Design and Transactional IP team and its IP Portfolio Management teams and co-leads the Trademark Enforcement team. Stephanie also serves as co-chair of Baker McKenzie's Toronto Consumer Goods and Retail Group, its Baker Women's Networking Group and is spearheading the Toronto office's Luxury and Fashion Group. Stephanie is described in the 2018 World Trademarks Review as a lawyer who has “complete mastery of the law and is practical and commercially minded.” She graduated from the University of Western Ontario Law School and received a Bachelor of Sciences degree (Biology Specialist) from the University of Toronto, where she graduated with distinction. Stephanie advises industry clients on a broad range of IP-related matters. She has extensive trademark-related experience, has assisted global clients with worldwide trademark portfolios, and represented them in opposition and cancellation proceedings. She has experience in transactional IP and has also participated in a variety of complex lawsuits dealing with, among others, trademark and copyright infringement, patent infringement and validity, Internet and domain name issues, licensing, unfair competition and passing off.

Professional Memberships

•Canadian Bar Association

•International Trademark Association (INTA) – Non-Traditional Marks Committee (2024)

•International Trademarks Association Canada Trademark Office Practices Committee (2021)

•International Trademark Association (INTA) - Non-Traditional Marks Committee (2010-2013 and 2018-present)

•International Trademark Association (INTA) - Trademark Offices Practices Committee (2014-2017)

•International Trademark Association (INTA) - Table Topics Committee (2016)

•Ontario Sports Hall of Fame

Publications

Author, Chapter on "Oppositions," Lexus Practice Advisor