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Sarah Dale-Harris
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Biography

Sarah Dale-Harris is a member of the firm's Intellectual Property Law, Technology & Outsourcing, Video Games & Interactive Entertainment and Commercial law practice groups. Ms. Dale-Harris works closely with clients in the strategic creation, development, management, commercialization and enforcement of their intellectual property portfolios, and primarily advises clients regarding the following issues:

• Drafting and negotiating licenses and other business related agreements, including software and hardware licenses (and acquisition) and service level agreements, vendor agreements, professional/technical service agreements, third party marketing/advertising (including IAB related terms), settlement, confidentiality, distribution, manufacture, supply, re-selling, franchising, material transfer, clinical trial, collaborative research and assignments for a variety of industries including software, video game, Internet-based, giftware and other consumer products, renewable energy, biotechnology and pharmaceutical
• Drafting web-related documents, including end user license agreements, terms of use and privacy policies
• Strategic development, protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights
• All matters relating to the registration of trade-marks, domain names and copyrights in Canada
• Transfer and acquisition of intellectual property rights
• Advising on privacy related matters including statutory compliance
• Enforcement of rights in respect of trade-marks, domain names and copyrights
• Advising on intellectual property-related matters for due diligence in mergers and acquisitions, licensing and other agreements
• Negotiation and settlement of domestic and international retailer (collections, e-commerce, intellectual property) and service provider (contractual) disputes

Ms. Dale-Harris joins Davis LLP having spent several years with a successful boutique intellectual property firm in Ottawa and more recently spending several months working in-house with the creators of one of the largest and most popular interactive websites/video games in the world.

Directorships, Memberships & Professional Activities

• Registered Canadian Trade-mark Agent since 2002
• International Trademark Association (INTA)
• Licensing Executive Society (LES)
• International Game Developers Association (IGDA)
• Canadian Bar Association (CBA)
• Ontario Bar Association (OBA)
• External Member (Board of Directors), Canadian Physiotherapy Association (CPA), 2007-present (volunteer)
• External Member (Finance Committee), Canadian Physiotherapy Association (CPA), 2006-2007 (volunteer)
• Advisor (Board of Advisors), Interactive Ontario (GameON Finance), 2008-2009 (volunteer)

Publications & Seminars

• Presented at Davis LLP Seminar "Managing Hot Spots in an Intellectual Property Due Diligence", October 2009.
• "The IT Girl", Canadian Lawyer Magazine, Online Edition (monthly column) (August 2009-current).
• "Big Brother might not be watching you - but he's out there.", October, 19, 2009.
• "i4i 1 - Microsoft 1", September 14, 2009.
• "Is Information Technology Pushing Us Over the Edge?", August 17, 2009.
• "Trademarks: Their Use and Restrictions" Presentation at the Canadian Franchise Association (May 4, 2009), Toronto, Ontario.
• "Gaming Agreements Workshop" for Entertainment, Advertising and Media Law Symposium, "Gaming Workshop" (April 17-18, 2009), Law Society of Upper Canada.
• "Invited to Jump on Board? Always Look Before you Leap!" Presentation to the Women's Executive Network on Director's Duties and Liabilities (April 9, 2009), Calgary, Alberta.
• Davis LLP Video Game Law Blog
• "VALUEQUEST: Unleashing New Revenue and Strategic AdvantageThrough Tech IP" Full GameON: Finance Conference in Toronto, January, 2008

Media Commentary

• Quoted in IT in Canada, "Paying for IP protection", September 28, 2009.
• Quoted in The Lawyer's Weekly, "IP lawyers comment on Ratiopharm", September 18, 2009.
• Quoted in The Information Exec, "Microsoft-i4i battle brings IP issues into focus", August 14, 2009.
• Quoted in "Canadian Law Firms And Their Use Of Social Media" White Paper prepared by CMW Group (August 2009).
• Quoted in the Toronto Star and in thestar.com article "Virtual Worlds", July 5, 2008
• Featured on the cover (Davis LLP Avatars) of and quoted in Canadian Lawyer Magazine "New-Frontiers", March 2008 Edition
• Quoted in Lawyers Weekly "Virtual worlds generate real litigation", February 11, 2008
• Quoted in CBC News article "Virtual Worlds", December 7, 2007.

Volunteer Work

• Volunteer, Cambridge Lecture Series (Cambridge University, UK), Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, 2005

Education

• LL.B., French Common Law, University of Ottawa, 2001
• M.A., Carleton University, 1997
• B.A., (Honours), Carleton University, 1995
• Internship at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) - WIPO Summer Internship Program, 2000
• Summer School on Intellectual Property, WIPO Academy, Geneva, Switzerland, 2000

Place and Year of Call

• Ontario, 2002

Languages Spoken

• English
• French

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