Stephanie N. Vaccari

Stephanie Vaccari heads Baker McKenzie's Intellectual Property Tech Practice Group in Toronto. She leads the Toronto office Industrial Design and Transactional IP team and co-leads its IP Portfolio Management and Trademark Enforcement teams. Vaccari also serves as co-chair of Baker McKenzie's Toronto Consumer Goods and Retail Group, its Baker Women's Networking Group and is spearheading the Toronto office's Luxury and Fashion Group. Vaccari is described by World Trademarks Review as a lawyer who has “complete mastery of the law and is practical and commercially minded.” Vaccari advises clients on a broad range of IP-related matters. She has extensive trademark-related experience, has assisted global clients with worldwide trademark portfolios, and represented them in opposition and cancellation proceedings. She has experience in transactional IP and has also participated in a variety of complex lawsuits dealing with, among others, trademark and copyright infringement, patent infringement and validity, Internet and domain name issues, licensing, unfair competition, and passing off. Vaccari has been ranked in Chambers Canada, The Best Lawyers in Canada and was recently named as one of WXN's Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award Winners.