Sangeetha Punniyamoorthy

• BuzzBallz LLC v. Endless Summer Distillery et al. (BC Supreme Court File. VLC-S-S-231462): Representing a leading innovator of mixed cocktail beverages in asserting trademark and related rights in an infringement action
• Cow Welfare A/S v. iBarn Incorporated (Federal Court File T-457-20): Representing innovator of barn equipment in a patent infringement dispute relating to free stall and feeding fence products
• Represented Aphria Inc. (TSX: APHA and NASDAQ: APHA) in its reverse takeover of Tilray, Inc. (NASDAQ: TLRY)
• Robertson v. Thomson Corp. (SCC File No. 30644/C38148): Representing the plaintiffs in this class action lawsuit at the Supreme Court of Canada in a successful appeal relating to substantive issues of copyright in respect of articles written by freelance authors and reproduced by newspaper publishers in electronic form
• Imdex v. Globaltech (Federal Court File Nos. T-410-23 and T-903-23): Representing a global mining technology leader in multiple patent infringement and invalidity actions
• Intercontinental Exchange Inc.: Representing a multinational financial services company and operator of global financial exchanges in various oppositions and disputes
• T. Rowe Price Group Inc. v. Glidepath Technologies (Federal Court File No. T-2144-23): Representing a global investment management firm in a successful appeal from the Trademarks Opposition Board
• Cognosphere PTE Ltd. v. Joaquin Soriano (Federal Court File No. T-2533-23): Representing a global video game publisher in obtaining judgment against cheat software with respect to copyrights and technological protection measures
• Edibles Arrangements LLC v. Vaav et al. (Federal Court File No. T-218-18): Representing a leading franchisor in an industrial design and trademark infringement suit against an online infringer, and successful obtaining default judgment, damages, and transfer of the domain names at issue
• Stargrove Entertainment Inc. v. Universal Music Canada Inc. et al. (Competition Tribunal CT-2015-09): Representing the applicant in a successful application for leave before the Competition Tribunal relating to the refusal of mechanical copyright licenses
• Microbix Biosystems ats Zeptometrix (Federal Court File No. T-1672-16): Representing Microbix, an innovator of biological products and technologies, in a patent infringement action related to inactivated microorganisms for use as molecular diagnostics
• BMW Canada Inc. v. Nissan Canada Inc. (Federal Court File No. T-1395-05): Representing BMW AG and BMW Canada Inc. in a trademark infringement action relating to the trademark M in association with luxury performance vehicles
• SOCAN v. Bell Canada et al. (SCC File No. 33800): Representing two interveners (CanLII and Federation of Law Societies of Canada) before the Supreme Court of Canada in successfully advocating for a large and liberal interpretation of research and the analysis of the purpose of fair dealing from the perspective of the ultimate user
• GlaxoSmithKline SA v. Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Inc. (Federal Court File No. T-2113-06): Representing Novartis Vaccines in a patent impeachment action relating to their patent on adjuvant compositions and related vaccines
• Voltige Inc. v. Cirque X Inc. (Federal Court File No. T-830-06): Successfully defending a motion for an interlocutory injunction based on the trademark infringement allegations relating to use of AVAIA mark in association with horse shows
• Omniglass Ltd. v. Wojick et al. (Ont. Sup. Ct): Representing Omniglass in a trade secret lawsuit relating to pultrusion technology
• Creative Matters Inc. v. Korhani of Canada Inc. (Federal Court File No. T-726-11): Representing Creative Matters, the copyright owner and a leading Canadian carpet designer, in an infringement and moral rights action relating to carpet designs
• Diligent Corporation v. Dilitrust SAS et al. (Federal Court File No. T-1775-18): Representing an international software-as-a-service company in a trademark dispute in Canada, in conjunction with multi-jurisdictional litigation
• 3Genius v. Locationary Inc. et al.  (Ont. Sup. Ct File No. CV-14-497239): Successfully representing the defendants in a dispute relating to ownership of software and a motion to compel millions of dollars of holdback funds into Court
• Richter Gedeon Vegyeszeti Gyar RT (Ont. Sup. Ct. File no. CV-312174; Federal Court File No. T-2520-93): Representing the Hungarian pharmaceutical company in a patent infringement action and a tort action against Apotex Inc.

Chambers Canada

• Intellectual Property: Litigation, (2024 – 2026)

Chambers Global

• Intellectual Property: Litigation, (2024 – 2026)

The Legal 500 Canada

• Leading Partner, Intellectual Property, (2022 – 2026)

Additional Recognitions

• Recognized, WTR 1000, (2026)
• Recognized, Toronto Intellectual Property Law, Best Lawyers in Canada, (2019 – 2026)
• Listed, Lexpert Special Edition: Health Sciences, (2024 – 2025)
• Intellectual Property, Lexpert® ALM 500 Directory, (2024)
• Top 100 Influential Women Leaders in IP Law: Champions of Leadership, Innovation, and Global Influence, (2026)
• Shortlisted, Practitioner of the Year, Trademark Disputes, Managing IP, (2024)
• St. Mike's Trailblazer Award, St. Michael's College, University of Toronto, (2023)
• Intellectual Property, The Legal 500 Canada, (2018 – 2019, 2021 – 2025)
• Managing IP's Top 250 Women in IP, (2022 – 2024)
• Trademark Star, Managing IP, IP Stars, (2020 – 2022, 2024 – 2025)
• Expert Guides: Guide to the World's Leading Women in Business Law, (2019 – 2021)
• Female Trailblazer Excellence Award Recipient, Canadian Law Awards, (2021)
• Life Sciences Star in Canada, LMG Life Sciences Directory, (2017, 2019 – 2021, 2023)
• Patent and Trademark Leader, World Intellectual Property Review, (2017 – 2023)
• Global Fellow, Federal Circuit Bar Association, (2019 – 2020)
• World Trademark Review, Leading Trademark Professional, WTR 1000, (2017 – 2022, 2024 – 2026)
• Litigation: Intellectual Property, Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, (2020 – 2026)
• Intellectual Property, Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, (2024 – 2026)
• Listed, Lexpert Special Edition: Technology, (2024 – 2025)
• Lawyers to Watch, Litigation: Intellectual Property, Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, (2017, 2019, 2020)
• Leading Lawyers Under 40 in Canada, Lexpert Rising Stars, (2018)
• Expert Guides – Trade Mark, (2018)
• South Asian Bar Association Legal Excellence Award, (2017)
• Litigation Lawyers to Watch, Lexpert Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Litigation Lawyers in Canada, (2017)

• Co-author, "Generative AI and Copyright (Canada)," Thomson Reuters Practical Law, April 1, 2026 [Reproduced from Practical Law with the permission of the publishers. For further information, visit practicallaw.com.]
• Co-author, "Intellectual Property in an AI World," Thomson Reuters Legal Update, May 25, 2023
• Contributor, "Trade Marks 2023 – Canada," chapter of Chambers Global Practice Guides, (2022 – 2023)
• Co-author, "Law and Practice" (Canada Section), Chambers Trade Marks Global Practice Guide, (2022)
• Co-author, "International Copyright Law: A Practical Global Guide, Second Edition," Globe Law and Business, February 2022
• Co-author, "Why you shouldn't overlook Canadian IP litigation," Life Sciences Intellectual Property Review, October 2, 2017
• Co-author, "Canadian Supreme Court upholds global injunction against Google," Leading Internet Case Law, August 4, 2017
• Co-author, "Trader v. CarGurus," Leading Internet Case Law, June 27, 2017
• Co-author, Canadian Marketing Law Handbook, Second Edition, Carswell
• Co-author, Intellectual Property chapter, Bullen & Leake & Jacob's Canadian Precedents of Pleadings, Carswell
• Co-author, "Interlocutory injunction for copyright infringement by pre-loaded TV set-top boxes," E-Commerce Law Reports, Volume 16 Issue 04
• Co-author, "Consumer seeks class action over Viagra patent," The Lawyers Weekly, May 2016
• Co-author, "The Supreme Court affirms the principle of technological neutrality in copyright law," Lexology, March 2016
• Co-author, "Branding of Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices: What you need to know about the latest developments in Canada," LawyerIssue, July 2015
• Co-author, "Red Label Vacations Inc. (Redtag.ca) v. 411 Travel Buys Limited," e-commerce Law Reports, Volume 15 Issue 2, March/April 2015

• Speaker, "Infringement and Defenses to Infringement," 2025 IPIC-McGill University Copyright Course, July 21, 2025
• Speaker, "Foundations of Copyright: Infringement," 2024 IPIC-McGill Copyright Master Class, July 22, 2024
• Speaker, "Best Practices in Trademark Oppositions & Section 45 Proceedings," Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, May 14, 2024
• Panelist, "Knowledge exchange – Enabling growth through sponsorship and mentoring," Women in Law Summit, Canadian Lawyer, April 17, 2024
• Speaker, "Can We 'Have it All'?" 4th Annual Women Lawyers' Symposium, South Asian Bar Association of Toronto, March 2, 2024
• Speaker, "Breaking Down the Year's Most Important IP Court Decisions," Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, October 11-13, 2023
• Speaker, "Trademark Case Law Series: Infringement," Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, March 23, 2023
• Speaker, Toast to Success Conference, September 18, 2022
• Speaker, "Trademark Case Law Series: Infringement," Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, April 19, 2022
• Guest lecturer, Copyright seminar, University of Ottawa, March 2021
• Speaker, "So Your Client Is Alleged To Have Infringed Someone's Copyright: What Might It Cost Them? " Copyright Webinar, Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, October 5, 2021
• Presenter, "Intellectual Property: What Business Lawyers Need to Know," 11th Business Law Summit, Law Society of Ontario, May 17, 2021
• Speaker, "Trial Advocacy," Advocacy Webinar Series, South Asian Bar Association, May 5, 2021
• Program Chair, "Recreational Cannabis: Key Intellectual Property and Advertising Issues," Ontario Bar Association, May 19, 2021
• Speaker, "Can't We All Just Get Along? Consents and Coexistence Agreements in Canada and the US," Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, February 26, 2021 
• Speaker, "Key IP Issues and Trends for In-house Counsel," OBA Canadian Corporate Counsel Association, November 25, 2020
• Speaker, "Trial Advocacy," Advocacy Seminar, South Asian Bar Association, June 9, 2020
• Speaker, "Trademarks Update," 24th Intellectual Property Law: The Year in Review, Law Society of Ontario, January 16, 2020
• Co-speaker, "Top IP Law Decisions: Year in Review in Canadian Jurisprudence," IP Beyond Borders: Canada Coming of Age in a Global Economy, IPIC Annual Conference, September 27, 2019
• Speaker, "Ethical Dilemmas in IP," 23rd Intellectual Property Law: The Year in Review, Law Society of Ontario, January 17, 2019
• Moderator, Global Series 2018, Federal Circuit Bar Association, October 10-12, 2018
• Speaker, "Dealing with Domain Names: Critical Advice and Essential Updates," Ontario Bar Association, March 26, 2018
• Speaker, Litigation Panel at the 14th Annual Asian Canadian Law Students Conference, Ontario Bar Association, March 3, 2018
• Co-chair, "Driving Innovation: The Interface Between Competition and Intellectual Property Law," Ontario Bar Association, November 22, 2017
• Co-chair, "Impacts of recent international treaties on intellectual property law," Ontario Bar Association, April 5, 2017
• Co-presenter, "Are you protecting your intellectual property?" Toronto Public Library - Small Business Network, March 29, 2017
• Keynote Speaker, "Beyond the B.Sc. Conference," Ryerson University, Toronto, Jan 21, 2017
• "Your First Civil Appeal," Ontario Bar Association, Toronto, October 17, 2016
• "Intellectual Property and the Internet: Google v. Equustek," Ontario Bar Association, Toronto, June 2016
• "Women in IP: Have issues evolved, are they resolved?" Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, Ottawa, January 2016
• "Intellectual property remedies - What do you need to know?" Ontario Bar Association, Toronto, December 2015
• "Copyright and Trademark remedies and recent changes in Canadian Practice," 89th Annual Intellectual Property Institute of Canada Conference, Banff, October 2015
• "Trademarks Virtual Roundtable," CorporateLiveWire, July 2015

• Quoted, "Navigating deepfake risks: age old problems, brand new tech," World Trademark Review, Q1, 2024
• Quoted, "Creativity in the age of AI," The Canadian Bar Association National, August 6, 2021
• Quoted, "IP lawyers applaud launch of Ontario's intellectual property action plan," The Lawyer's Daily, July 22, 2020
• Quoted, "Copyright board overdue for review, say lawyers," Law Times, December 12, 2016
• Mentioned, "Sony, Universal Curbing Competition, Budget CD Maker Says," Law360, September 2015
• Quoted, "Stung by CBC, Lost in Court," Blacklocks Reporter, May 4, 2015
• Quoted, "Fair Dealing Evolves," Law Times, February 2, 2015

• Organizing Committee and Past Chair, Harold G. Fox IP Moot
• Board Member, Osgoode Hall Law School Alumni Association
• Advisory Board, Practical Law – Corporate and Commercial Transactions, Thomson Reuters
• Advisory Board, Canadian Tamil Professionals Association
• Director, National Inventors Hall of Fame Canada, (2019 – 2021)
• Director, Girls Inc. of York Region, (2011 – 2016)

• Member, Federal Circuit Bar Association
• Member, ChIPs
• Past Chair, Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law Section Executive, Ontario Bar Association
• Past Chair, Copyright Policy Committee, Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC)
• Fellow, Intellectual Property Institute of Canada
• Member, International Trademarks Association (Canada Amicus Committee)
• Member, American Bar Association
• Intellectual Property Executive (Ontario Representative), Canadian Bar Association
• Member, Pharmaceutical Trademark Group (PTMG)
• Editorial Board Member, Intellectual Property Journal, Federated Press, (2008 – 2015)