Chris Bennett
Partner, Vancouver
Chris Bennett is the head of the firm's IT Law Group and Trade-marks Law Group, and a member of the firm's Intellectual Property, Technology & Outsourcing, Video Games & Interactive Entertainment, and Franchise & Distribution Law Groups. He is also the Chair of the firm's Environmental Sustainability Task Force.
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Chris primarily advises clients in connection with the following:
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creating, protecting, enforcing and commercializing intellectual property (IP) and technology (IT)
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developing, distributing, licensing and supporting software, video games and other technology
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negotiating IT outsourcing and services agreements
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negotiating athlete, event and corporate sponsorship agreements
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negotiating gift card agreements and drafting gift card terms
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complying with privacy legislation and drafting privacy consents and privacy policies
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complying with promotional contest laws and drafting contest rules and waivers
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establishing and protecting internet-based businesses, franchise systems and other distribution systems
Chris was recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada 2013 as a leading lawyer in Information Technology Law, and by Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as a Leading Practitioner in Computer and IT Law. He is also AV® Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
Professional Associations & Activities
- Committee Member, International Trademark Association Pro Bono Committee
- Advisory Board Member, International Legal Technology Standards Organization
- Advisory Board Member, 2009 Pacific Legal Technology Conference
- Registered Canadian Trade-mark Agent
- Member, Law Society of British Columbia
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Chair, Computer Law Section, Canadian Bar Association (2001-2003)
- Co-instructor, New Media and Law Course, British Columbia Institute of Technology
- Affiliate, Intellectual Property Institute of Canada
- Affiliate Member, Canadian Franchise Association
- Member, International Game Developers Association
- Member, New Media BC
- Overseas Member, The Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys
Publications
EventsGuest lecturer, UBC Law School Wednesday, 13 March 2013 March 2013 Speaker, Davis LLP Seminar Monday, 25 February 2013 February 2013 Insight M&A Conference Tuesday, 6 December 2011 December 2011 Davis LLP Litigation Breakfast Seminar Friday, 18 November 2011 November 2011 Davis LLP Wednesday, 19 October 2011 October 2011 Canadian Bar Association Seminar Tuesday, 7 June 2011 June 2011 International Trademark Association Friday, 29 October 2010 October 2010 Presenter Tuesday, 8 June 2010 June 2010
Chris Bennett
Pannelist for session on licensing new media, Alliance for Commercialization of Canadian Technologies [more]Sunday, 15 November 2009 November 2009 Tuesday, 10 November 2009 November 2009 Davis LLP Seminar Monday, 9 November 2009 November 2009 UBC Law School Thursday, 1 October 2009 October 2009 BC Law Society Thursday, 1 October 2009 October 2009 Insight Information Saturday, 1 November 2008 November 2008 Canadian Intellectual Property Office / Intellectual Property Institute of Canada Monday, 1 September 2008 September 2008 Insight Information Tuesday, 1 April 2008 April 2008
Chris Bennett
Presented a seminar on "IP law issues in the Video Game Industry"
[more]Tuesday, 1 April 2008 April 2008
Chris Bennett
Presented on IP law and IT law
[more]Monday, 14 January 2008 January 2008 Intellectual Property Institute of Canada Thursday, 1 November 2007 November 2007 Federated Press Monday, 1 October 2007 October 2007
Chris Bennett
Presented a workshop on Intellectual Capital for Game Companies
[more]Tuesday, 1 May 2007 May 2007
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Presented a seminar on "Third-Party Video Game Licence Agreements"
[more]Wednesday, 1 March 2006 March 2006
In The NewsThe legal industry has yet to create regulatory standards for cloud service providers; as such, lawyers currently looking to store client data in the cloud must be vigilant when examining a provider's [more]Source: The Lawyers Weekly Monday, 6 May 2013 Chris Bennett, head of the Davis LLP IT Law Group and Trade-marks Law Group, is featured in the International Trademark Association's Pro Bono Spotlight series for providing ongoing pro bono intellectual [more]Source: International Trademark Association Monday, 4 March 2013 Davis LLP intellectual property lawyer Chris Bennett was interviewed for a story in the November 9, 2012 issue of The Lawyers Weekly on trademark protection.
The article "Trademark Clearinghouse [more]Source: The Lawyers Weekly Tuesday, 27 November 2012 Davis LLP is pleased to announce that, continuing the firm's tradition of excellence, 33 of our lawyers have recently been selected by their peers for inclusion in the list of Best Lawyers in Canada [more]Friday, 31 August 2012 Chris Bennett advises business users of mobile and digital technology to take due care in protecting their data.
Mobile and digital technology has made business communication faster and easier than [more]Source: Lawyer's Weekly Wednesday, 1 August 2012 Continuing the tradition of excellence at Davis LLP, 32 lawyers have been named top practitioners in Canada by Lexpert
Davis LLP is pleased to announce that 32 of the firm's lawyers have been [more]Wednesday, 30 May 2012 Intellectual Property lawyer Chris Bennett shares his expertise on trademark protection and domain name dispute resolution in the latest issue of In-House Counsel magazine.
In the aricle "What's [more]Source: In-House Counsel Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2012 Thursday, 24 May 2012 Chris Bennett is quoted in this article by Lawyers Weekly [more]Source: Lawyers Weekly Friday, 4 November 2011 Chris Bennett was quoted in this article by Canadian Lawyer [more]Source: Canadian Lawyer Thursday, 1 September 2011 Chris Bennett is quoted in this article about the dot-xxx domain name first published in Business in Vancouver, June 28-July 4, 2011.
Read the article: Keep your brand out of the Internet's red-light [more]Tuesday, 28 June 2011 Chris Bennett is quoted in this article first published on Global Winnipeg, Monday, June 27, 2011.
The article reports how Canadian law differs after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a law banning [more]Monday, 27 June 2011 Chris Bennett is quoted in this Lawyers Weekly article first published February 4, 2011. [more]Friday, 4 February 2011 As the first Canadian law firm to launch a practice group dedicated entirely to video game law, it is no surprise Davis was recently selected as one of the top 30 firms with a video game specialty practice [more]Monday, 17 January 2011 Chris Bennett is quoted in this article first publised in the Lawyers Weekly, August 2010. [more]Thursday, 1 July 2010 Chris Bennett is quoted in this article first published in the Lawyers Weekly, June 11, 2010.
Read Legal blogs that work online. [more]Friday, 11 June 2010 Chris Bennett is quoted in this article first published in Business in Vancouver, May 4-10, 2010. [more]Tuesday, 4 May 2010 January 6, 2010: In an article on the Globe and Mail Law Page about online blogging, Chris Bennett discusses Davis' active online presence. Quoted from the article: "Unlike Ogilvy, some large [more]Wednesday, 6 January 2010 Business in Vancouver (BIV) recently released the names of forty up-and-coming business leaders for 2009 and Davis LLP's Chris Bennett is on the list. Chris received accolades for spearheading one [more]Tuesday, 5 January 2010 Vancouver - The BC Court of Appeal delivered its decision November 13th on whether or not the female ski jumping event should be included in the Vancouver Winter Olympics. The Court ruled against inclusion, [more]Wednesday, 18 November 2009 Chris Bennett is quote in this article about Vancouver game developers first published in Business in Vancouver, November 17-23, 2009. [more]Tuesday, 17 November 2009 Chris Bennett is quoted in this article first published in Bartalk (The Canadian Bar Association), December 2009.
Read How Technology Impacts Privacy online. [more]Sunday, 1 November 2009 On August 12, 2009, the Canada Line Rapid Transit Project formally achieved Service Commencement, a significant milestone in the Project's development, approximately three and a half months ahead [more]Thursday, 13 August 2009 Gift cards have become wildly popular in Canada. Their main appeal is that they make easy gifts: they're compact, lightweight, and flexible. They're available in a wide range of retail outlets, [more]Friday, 7 August 2009 Chris Bennett is quote a Business in Vancouver article on the Vancouver Video Game Industry, first published February 10-16, 2009. [more]Tuesday, 10 February 2009 Quoted in this article first published in ABA Law Practice, January/February 2009. [more]2009 Vancouver, BC, November 25, 2008 - Davis LLP is pleased to announce that Chris Bennett, a partner in the Vancouver office, was selected as one of the Lexpert® Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under [more]Wednesday, 26 November 2008 The November 2008 edition of develop Magazine, a UK-based video game industry publication, features an editorial about our dedicated video game law department, comprised of a group of lawyers from across [more]Wednesday, 5 November 2008 Chris Bennett is quoted in this article first published in the CBA PracticeLink, September 2008.
Read Practicing Law with SaaS online. [more]Monday, 1 September 2008 Lauren Groves, daughter of Vancouver partner Robert Groves, has recently been featured on the cover of the May/June 2008 issue of Triathlon Canada magazine as part of their "Olympic Team Preview" [more]Monday, 12 May 2008 Chris Bennett is quoted in this article, first published in Business in Vancouver, April 29, 2008. [more]Tuesday, 29 April 2008 Chris Bennett is quoted in this Business in Vancouver article commenting on the new .asia internet domain that will assist businesses in gaining new internet traffic, but which also must be secured before [more]Source: Business in Vancouver Tuesday, 18 March 2008 Chris Bennett provides commentary on the role of law firms in virtual worlds. Davis LLP is the first Canadian law firm to open an office in the online virtual realm of Second Life, created and operated [more]Wednesday, 12 March 2008 Chris Bennett is quoted in this article first published in the Financial Post, March 12, 2008. [more]Wednesday, 12 March 2008 First published in Bartalk, February, 2008 By Patricia Jordan
Building Your Blawg and Driving Traffic to Your Site
Now that you have decided to create a blawg, there are a few matters to consider [more]Friday, 15 February 2008 Business in Vancouver February 5-11, 2008; issue 954 | Andrew Petrozzi
Courts wrestle with virtual assets
The status of virtual assets acquired in online video games remains a virtual unknown [more]Friday, 8 February 2008 Davis is featured in this article published in Develop magazine, November 2008.
Download a PDF of the article: 10 of th the Best Games Companies in Canada. [more]Friday, 1 February 2008 Chris Bennett's flourishing Video Games & Interactive Entertainment Law practice is highlighted in the "Job Shadow" feature in the December 2007 Financial Post Business magazine.
Chris [more]Wednesday, 5 December 2007 November 26, 2007: Today, Davis LLP’s Video Game Law Blog celebrates its third birthday. Since its inception in 2004, the blog has been a vehicle for members of the Davis LLP Video Games & [more]Monday, 26 November 2007 Chris Bennet is quoted about the Davis LLP Second Life office in this article, first published in The Voice, October 25, 2007.
Download the PDF to read the full article. [more]Sunday, 30 September 2007 Davis LLP is excited to be the first Canadian law firm to open an office in Second Life. Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, [more]Monday, 24 September 2007 Chris Bennett is featured in this article first published in the the National, July/August 2007.
Imagine your name is Space Razor. You’re a starship pilot who has achieved fame and fortune [more]Friday, 3 August 2007 First published in The Vancouver Sun, July 27, 2007 | Marke Andrews
You know a young industry has reached adulthood when lawyers specialize in the field.
Chris Bennett is one of a growing number [more]Friday, 27 July 2007 First published in The Lawyers Weekly, July 13, 2007
At the relatively young age of 35, Chris Bennett has been made partner of Davis LLP. Bennett turned an obsession for video games into a distinctive [more]Friday, 20 July 2007 First published in Vancouver Sun, July 18, 2007 | Fiona Anderson
Chris Bennett, based in the Vancouver office of Davis LLP, is an Intellectual Property and Technology lawyer, and head of the firm's [more]Wednesday, 18 July 2007 Chris Bennett of the Davis LLP Vancouver office won the "Honouring Excellence in Legal Marketing" (HELM) Young Lawyer Award at the awards event held by the Vancouver chapter of the Legal Marketing [more]Thursday, 14 June 2007 Doug Buchanan, National Managing Partner at Davis LLP, is pleased to announce that Chris Bennett has joined the partnership.
Chris, who joined Davis in 2000, is the head of the firm's Trade-marks [more]Friday, 25 May 2007 Chris Bennett and David Spratley spoke with programmers, artists, game designers, producers and studio leads on the topic of law in the video game industry.
The workshop provided a general overview [more]Sunday, 29 April 2007 Chris Bennett is quoted in this article first published by CBC, December 20, 2007.
Read Virtual Worlds online. [more]Monday, 20 November 2006 Chris Bennett was a special guest on CBC Radio One, discussing the legal issues surrounding massively multiplayer online video games, November 2006. [more]Sunday, 1 October 2006 Chris Bennett is quoted in this article first published in The Lawyers Weekly, September 7, 2007.
Read Lawyers hang their virtual shingles online in Second Life. [more]Thursday, 7 September 2006 Chris Bennett is quoted in this article first published in this CBA National magazine article on video game law, August 2006. [more]Tuesday, 1 August 2006 Chris Bennett is quoted in this article first published in this Edge magazine article on game patents and copyrights, August 2006. [more]Tuesday, 1 August 2006 Chris Bennett is quoted in this BC Business article first published July 2006. [more]Saturday, 1 July 2006 Chris Bennett is quoted in this article first published in The Lawyers Weekly, February 24, 2006. [more]Thursday, 23 February 2006 Chris Bennett is quoted articles regarding the use of Red Cross Trade-marks in video games published in Vancouver Sun, National Post, Calgary Herald and Ottawa Citizen, February 2006. [more]Wednesday, 1 February 2006 Chris Bennett is quoted in this article first published in CBALink, February 2006. [more]Wednesday, 1 February 2006 Le blogue de Davis traitant des lois régissant les jeux vidéo et auquel contribuent Chris Bennett, David Spratley, Pablo Guzman, et Tudor Carsten, s’est vu décerner le « [more]Friday, 16 December 2005 Chris Bennett is quoted in this article first published in Backbone Magazine, November 2006. [more]Tuesday, 1 November 2005 Chris Bennett is quoted in this article regarding employee overtime in the video game industry published in the Vancouver Sun and Globe and Mail, October 2005. [more]Thursday, 1 September 2005 The Province of British Columbia (Ministry of Transportation and the BC Transportation Financing Authority) and the Okanagan Lake Concession Limited Partnership, a sole purpose limited partnership established [more]Sunday, 3 July 2005 Chris Bennett was a special guest on 640 Toronto, Mojo Radio discussing video game legislation, July 2005. [more]Friday, 1 July 2005 Harman Canada Co., a subsidiary of Harman International Industries, Inc. acquired QNX Software Systems Ltd. for a purchase price of US$138 million.
QNX is a world leader in the development, licensing [more]Tuesday, 30 November 2004
Recognition- American Lawyer Magazine and Martindale-Hubbell, 2013 Top Rated Lawyer in Canada
- Recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada 2013 as a leading lawyer in Information Technology Law
- AV® Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
- Leading Practitioner in Computer and IT Law - Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory
- 2009 Business in Vancouver Forty under 40
- 2008 Lexpert® Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40
- Wesbrook Scholar
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