Daniel Glover is an associate in our Intellectual Property Group. His practice focuses on intellectual property management, acquisition, and protection, including by way of litigious disputes. He has a particular interest in all aspects of media law, including Internet law, copyright and trade-mark protection, and privacy and advertising compliance.
Mr. Glover has represented clients in complex matters before the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal, the Federal Court, and the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal, and has won victories as sole counsel in trade-mark matters before the Federal Court and the Trade-marks Opposition Board. He appeared before the Supreme Court twice in 2011 on copyright-related matters and will appear before the Supreme Court again in 2012 on an appeal dealing with the intersection between copyright and broadcasting law.
A selection of reported decisions in which Mr. Glover was counsel includes:
Maple Leaf Foods Inc. v. Consorzio del Prosciutto di Parma (2010), 87 C.P.R. (4th) 81 (F.C.A.), aff'ing (2009), 80 C.P.R. (4th) 328 (F.C.)
Sirius Canada Inc. v. CMRRA/SODRAC Inc. et al. (2010), 89 C.P.R. (4th) 206 (F.C.A.), leave refused with costs on October 20, 2011
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission's Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2010-167 and Broadcasting Order CRTC 2010-168 (Re), 2011 FCA 64, leave granted 2011 CanLII 60764 (S.C.C.)
Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Assn. v. Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (2008), 64 C.P.R. (4th) 343 (F.C.A.)
Matol Biotech Laboratories Ltd. v. Jurak Holdings Ltd. (2008), 69 C.P.R. (4th) 321 (F.C.), aff'ing (2007), 64 C.P.R. (4th) 195 (T.M.O.B.)
Omega SA v. Iwatsu Electric Co. (2011), 95 C.P.R. (4th) 78 (T.M.O.B.)
Consorzio del Prosciutto di Parma v. Maple Leaf Foods Inc., 2010 TMOB 52 (CanLII)
Mr. Glover has acted for a wide range of clients, including Internet service providers and content hosts, media companies and industry organizations (film, television, music, and publishing), banks and financial companies, retailers, visual artists, and software, electronics and technology manufacturers.
Mr. Glover is an adjunct professor in intellectual property law at the Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. He is a member of the Copyright Policy Committee of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC), sat on the Canadian Working Committee for the Association Internationale Pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI), and is a member of the International Trademark Association (INTA) and the Association Littéraire & Artistique Internationale (ALAI). He has presented on intellectual property issues at numerous conferences, including the 40th annual conference of the Canadian Conference on International Law on intellectual property and the Internet.
Mr. Glover clerked at the Court of Appeal for Ontario in 2005-2006. He received his JD (Honours) from the University of Toronto in 2005, where he concentrated on intellectual property and won the Gowlings Prize in Law and Information Technology, the Honourable Jerry S. Grafstein, QC Prize in Communications Law, the A. Alan Borovoy Prize in Civil Liberties, the Patricia Julia Myhal Scholarship in Legal Writing, and the Lang Michener Prize in Property.
Prior to entering law school, Mr. Glover was an editor and writer for the National Post and an editor for the Frommer's and Let's Go travel guide series.
Mr. Glover received his MA from the University of Toronto in 1996 and his AB (magna cum laude) from Harvard University in 1994, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and won numerous awards, including the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize, the LeBaron Russell Briggs Traveling Fellowship and the John Harvard Scholarship. He was called to the Ontario bar in 2006 and is a registered trade-mark agent.