Steven Z. Raber
"Our job is to solve our clients’ problems by finding and following the shortest routes possible to achieving their goals."
Call to Bar
- Admitted to the Manitoba Bar in 1982
Areas of Focus
Steven is a partner of Fillmore Riley LLP and practises civil litigation, primarily commercial, employment, financial services, insurance, and intellectual property litigation, including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secrets, and industrial designs, and is a registered trademark agent.
Steven has further pursued his interest in alternative dispute resolution and has successfully served as mediator in intellectual property and other matters. After careful review of a large number of qualified applicants, the Selection Committee of the International Trademark Association has selected Steven to join its Panel of Neutrals as a mediator. This innovative Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) program has been very successful in resolving trademark and unfair competition disputes without litigation.
Steven is a Fellow of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, and is a member of the Advocates Society of Manitoba, the Canadian IT Law Association, and the Canadian and Manitoba Bar Associations.
Education
- University of Manitoba, Bachelor of Laws, 1981
Professional Activities
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Member, Manitoba Bar Association
- Member, Alternate Dispute Resolution Committee and the Neutrals Standards and Measurement Sub-committee of the International Trademark Association
- Member, Alternate Dispute Resolution Committee, Intellectual Property of Institute of Canada
- Member, Community Legal Education Association
- Contributor, Law Society of Manitoba, Continuing Legal Education Program (Remedies for Infringement of Intellectual Property)
- Workshop for Inventors, Innovators, and Entrepreneurs on Protecting Intellectual Property
- Chair, Technology and Intellectual Property Practice Group
- Chair, Trademark Practice Group
- Acting Chair, Aboriginal Practice Group
- Former Examiner, Law Society of Manitoba Bar Admission course, Ethics
- Former Chair, Newsletter Committee, Articling Committee
Volunteer Activities
- Member, Financial Advisory Committee, Sharon Home Inc.
- Former Member, Audit Committee, Jewish Foundation of Manitoba
- Former Board Member, Chai Folk Arts Council Inc.
- Former Board Member, Manitoba Children's Museum
- Former Panelist, Law Society of Manitoba Bar Admission course
- Former soccer and basketball coach
Practice Groups
Publications / Presentations
- Author, Trade-Marks Are Valuable: That Is Why There Are So Many Fakes! (Marketplace Magazine Online, Winter 2010)
- Author, The Perils of Cyber-Squatting, Internet and E-Commerce Law in Canada ((2008-09) 9 I.E.C.L.C., April 2009)
- Author, Liability of officers and directors for corporate patent infringement: Mentmore revisited (The Lawyers Weekly, December 17, 2004)
- Panelist, Federal Court Rules, (Canadian Bar Association / Federal Court of Canada, 1998)
- Lecturer, Trade Secrets, Copywright, Trademarks, and IP Litigation (University of Manitoba - Certificate in Intellectual Property and Technology Commercialization Management)
- Chair and Panelist, Intellectual Property (Law Society of Manitoba - Continuing Legal Education Program)
- Panelist, Federal Court Rules (Law Society of Manitoba - Continuing Legal Education Program, 1998)
- Presenter, Canadian Innovation Centre / Western Economic Diversification Western Canada