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Burshtein, Sheldon was born in 1952 in Montreal, Quebec.
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Sheldon Burshtein
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SHELDON BURSHTEIN, Canadian Lawyer, Partner of BLAKE, CASSELS & GRAYDON, specializing in the field of Administrative Law, Assessment and Expropriation, Banking and Financial Institutions, Bankruptcy, Charitable Organizations, Civil Litigation, Combines and Antitrust, Commercial Real Estate, Commodity Taxation and Trade, Computers and High Technology, Constitutional Law, Corporate and Commercial, Corporate Finance, Environmental Law, Food and Drug, Foreign Investment, Franchising, General Corporate Practice, Immigration, Insolvency and Receivership, International Transactions and Financings, Labour Relations and Employment, Leasing, Libel and Slander, Licensing, Life and Other Insurance, Marketing and Business Practices, Mining, Municipal Law, Newspapers, Oil and Gas, Pension, Patents, Trade Marks and Copyright, Partnerships, Reorganizations, Real Property, Secured Transactions, Securities, Stock and Commodity Exchanges, Taxation, Trial and Appellate Work, Wills, Trusts and Estates.
Education
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec (Bachelor of Engineering, Civil Engineering, 1974. Bachelor of Civil Law, 1977. Bachelor of Laws Registered Canadian Trade Mark Agent, 1980.
Registered Canadian Patent Agent, 1987.
Registered Professional Engineer, Province of Ontario, 1980.
Career
Worked at Blake, Cassels & Graydon (Toronto, Ontario) specializing in Aviation, Business, Commodity Tax and Trade, Communications, Competition, Constitutional, Creditors" Rights and Insolvency, Environmental, Estates and Trusts, Financial Services, Health, Insurance, Intellectual Property and Technology, International, Labour and Employment, Litigation, Marketing and Advertising, Media, Mergers and Acquisitions, Mining, Municipal Planning, Oil and Gas, Pension and Employee Benefits, Real Estate, Securities and Taxation, Trial and Appellate Work. Admitted to the bar, 1980, Ontario. Registered Canadian Trade Mark Agent, 1980.
Registered United States Trademark Agent (Canadian Applicants), 1982.
Registered Canadian Patent Agent, 1987. Registered United States Patent Agent (Canadian Applicants), 1987.
Registered Professional Engineer, Province of Ontario, 1980. (Certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a Specialist in Intellectual Property Law).
Blake, Cassels & Graydon is one of Canada"s leading national law firms, with over 350 lawyers, serving its national and international clients through five offices across Canada and in Europe.
Achievements
Membership
Editorial Board, Patent World, since 1986. Advisory Board, The Merchandisins Reporter, since 1986. Columnist, Intellectual Property, Engineering Digest, 1986.
Member: Canadian Bar Association (Chairman, Intellectual Property Section Continuing Legal Education Committee).
County of York Law Association. Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario.
The Engineering Institute of Canada. Patent and Trademark Institute of Canada.
L’Association des Juristes d’Expression Francaise de TOntario.
International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property. Licensing Executives Society (Chairman, Canada Laws Committee and Member, Trade Mark Licensing Committee). United States Trade Mark Association (Member, Licensing Committee).
Canadian Society for Civil Engineering.
Canadian Society for Professional Engineers. The Lawyers Club, Toronto.
Asia Pacific Lawyers Association. Technology Transfer Society.
European Communities Trade Mark Practitioners’ Association.
Fellow, Patent and Trademark Institute of Canada (Chairman, Licensing Committee. Member: Industrial Design Legislation Committee. Advertising Committee).
