About Karen MacDonald

Karen MacDonald is a partner and registered trade mark agent at Cassels. Karen has extensive experience in litigating matters in all areas of intellectual property, including trade marks, patents, copyright, industrial designs, and confidential information. She has appeared before the Federal Court, the Federal Court of Appeal, the British Columbia Supreme Court, and the British Columbia Court of Appeal. Karen is also one of Canada’s leading experts in anti-counterfeiting enforcement; she is involved with developing and implementing anti-counterfeiting enforcement programmes in Canada for major brand owners worldwide. She also engages in trade mark portfolio management and Canadian and global trade mark prosecution.


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