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Ronald E. Dimock, Partner

Ron is one of Canada’s leading intellectual property litigators with wide-ranging experience in all patent, trademark, copyright, and industrial design matters, including infringement, validity, and licensing. Over the course of a practice spanning more than three decades, Ron has acted in more than forty-five patent, trademark and copyright trials before the Federal Court and more than thirty appeals before the Supreme Court of Canada, Federal Court of Appeal and Ontario Court of Appeal.  He was counsel in the Supreme Court of Canada on three of the leading cases in IP law:  Whirlpool v. Camco (patents), Lego v. Mega Bloks (trademarks) and Robertson v. Thomson (copyright).

Ron is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a Specialist in both Civil Litigation and Intellectual Property (Patent, Trademark, and Copyright) Law.  Ron is identified by Lexpert as one of the "Most Frequently Recommended" IP litigators in Canada and has been named as the leading patent lawyer in Canada in the Managing Intellectual Property Guide to the World’s Leading Patent Law Experts. He has also been described as the "guru of IP law in Canada" in Chambers & Partners Global Guide and as "one of the finest litigators" in Canada by Who’s Who in Patents. Ron is also AV®Preeminent™ rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

Ron also teaches a graduate level course in Intellectual Property to LL.M. students at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. He has taught patents to law students at Queen’s University and has taught copyright to students enrolled in the Advanced Course on Copyright sponsored by McGill University and the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada. He is on the International Trademark Association’s Panel of Neutrals for Canada and a Mediator on file with IPIC. Ron is also Editor of Intellectual Property Disputes: Resolutions and Remedies updated semi-annually by Thomson Carswell Publishing, and Editor-in-Chief of the IP Law Quarterly from Federated Press. He is also on the Editorial Board of the CCH Canadian Commercial Law Guide.

Prior to his call to the Ontario Bar in 1976, Ron obtained his LL.B. in 1974 and B.Sc. in Mathematics and Engineering (with Honours) in 1971 from Queen’s University. He was Big Brother of the Year for Toronto in 1979 and served as Board Director for several years.  Ron is now a member of the Major Gift Cabinet of the United Way of Toronto.

Selected publications and presentations:

Publications

Intellectual Property Disputes: Resolutions and Remedies, Thomson Carswell (editor and co-author of Patents chapter)

Intellectual Property chapter, Canadian Commercial Law Guide, CCH (co-author)

Patents and Trade Secrets chapter, Canadian Forms and Precedents, LexisNexis (co-author)

Canadian Chapter, Guide to the World's Leading Patent Law Practitioners, Expert Guides, 2009 (co-author)

Commentary on Bill C-61 (So You Want to Be a Rock-N-Roll Infringer…Or Not), Commercial Times, July 2008 (co-author)

"Some impacts of digital technology on copyright law and practice in North America", (2006) 13 Oxford Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 839 (co-author)

"Fair dealing: a user right or a defence?" (2005) 22 Canadian Intellectual Property Review 11 (co-author)

Presentations, teaching appointments, and speaking engagements

"Recent Developments in the Patent Law", CIPO (Patent Examiners), Gatineau, June 2010

"The Year in Review", Patent Law Update, IPIC Webinar, April 2010

"Interface between IP and Competition Law", CBA National Competition Law Section - Young Lawyers Committee, Toronto, April 2010

"Review of the recent top 10 IP cases", World IP Day, LES Toronto Chapter, April 2010

"Patents Update", 13th Annual Intellectual Property Law:  The Year in Review, Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto, January 2010

"Why would anyone want to be an IP Lawyer?  An Introduction to the practice of intellectual property law" Queen's University Law Alumni Speaker Series, Nov 2009

"Mediation of IP licensing disputes" Licensing Executives Society, Nov 2009 (co-presenter)

"Preparing the expert for cross-examination", CBA Advocacy before the Federal Court in IP Matters, May 2008

Panelist, 12th Annual Intellectual Property Law: The Year in Review, Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto, January 2008

Intellectual Property Law Primer: Focus on Patent Law, Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto, September 2007

"Understanding the business of copyright—exclusive rights in copyright and some neighbouring rights, too", IPIC-McGill Summer Course in the Business of Copyright, McGill University, Montréal, August 2007

"Patent law—then and now", Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Victoria College, University of Toronto, Toronto, March 2007

"Official marks: an update", IPIC Annual Meeting, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, September 2006

"Copyright and the recording industry", OBA Hot Spots in Copyright Conference, May 2005

Lecturer, Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal Education Seminar: Intellectual Property, National Judicial Institute, Ottawa, April 2005

Lecturer on Intellectual Property Remedies, LL.M. program at Osgoode Hall Law School since 1998