Rebecca Michal Kupfer

Rebecca is a graduate of the Canadian and American Dual JD program through the universities of Windsor and Detroit Mercy. Prior to law school Rebecca obtained an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Queen’s University.

At law school, Rebecca was active in student and community life as an executive member of the Jewish Law Students Association, as a Faculty Council Representative on Windsor’s Student Law Society and volunteering with Windsor Community Legal Aid. She also served as a Teaching Assistant for the Comparative Legal Writing and Research course at Detroit Mercy Law. After her first year, Rebecca completed a Judicial Internship with the Honourable Terrence G. Berg in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Prior to joining Shift Law as an Associate, Rebecca summered and articled at another boutique intellectual property firm in downtown Toronto.

We acted for the successful appellant in this appeal from an interlocutory injunction order in a trademark infringement and passing off action in the Ontario Superior Court. Three Divisional Court judges unanimously agreed that the Superior Court had erred in each element of the three-part test, including in finding that the plaintiff had established a serious issue to be tried. You can read more about the case in this article about it.

We developed and successfully executed an IP enforcement strategy on Amazon.ca for a skincare products manufacturer that eliminated infringing retailers without the costs and delays of trademark litigation

We represented the successful plaintiff in a trademark infringement action in the Federal Court involving complex issues of what happens to the trademarks of a joint venture after it breaks up. You can read more about this case in our blog post about it.