Rob McDonald practices primarily in the areas of civil and commercial litigation, with a focus on intellectual property matters, particularly copyright, trade-mark, patent and confidential information issues. He has litigated copyright, trade-mark and patent infringement actions at various court levels and advises clients with respect to all aspects of the protection, licensing and exploitation of their intellectual property and technology.

Rob has extensive experience with trade-mark protection, prosecution and oppositions, copyright agreements and disputes, software licensing agreements, and legal issues related to the Internet and information technology. He also has experience as an arbitrator and mediator in intellectual property disputes.

Rob is a registered trade-mark agent in both Canada and the United States, an executive member of the Canadian Bar Association's Intellectual Property Section and a member of the Licensing Executives Society, Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, International Trade-mark Association and numerous other local technology organizations. As a former director of Cancopy, the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency, Rob has been very active in the negotiation and drafting of licences with users of copyright and the distribution of royalties to authors and publishers. Also, Rob has written numerous articles and is a frequent speaker on intellectual property law topics, and he teaches the Intellectual Property Law course at the University of Alberta's Law School.

LL.B, University of Alberta, 1988

Called to the Alberta Bar in 1989

Member, Intellectual Property Institute of Canada

Member, Licensing Executives Society (Edmonton and Calgary Chapters)

Member, International Trade-mark Association

Member, Edmonton Council for Advanced Technologies and Calgary Council for Advanced Technologies

Member, Alberta Arbitration and Mediation Society

Vice-Chair, Intellectual Property Section, Canadian Bar Association

Member, IAAF 8th World Championships in Athletics, 2001 Legal Team (Intellectual Property Protection and Enforcement)

Member, Continuing Legal Education Committee, Canadian Bar Association, National Intellectual Property Section