Questions pertaining to copyright law, trademark, patent, personal data protection or privacy, as with any legal questions, are situational and specific. Members can ask a question, at no cost, for which a legal opinion may be provided.

If you have a question about a copyright, trademark, patent, personal data protection or privacy issue, send an email to Michelle Arbuckle, Executive Director, with your name and phone number. Your message will be forwarded to CLS, in confidence, and a CLS worker will follow up with a phone call to you to ask more specific questions related to your situation and to determine whether a legal opinion can be provided. If one can be provided, you will receive a legal opinion letter from CLS a few weeks later.

OLA will subsequently publish without any identifying details, a summary of the legal opinions given by CLS to OLA members on the OLA website for the benefit of other OLA members. The summary will not contain information specific to the individual or the organization originally seeking the opinion.

OLA would like to thank Bassem Awad, Assistant Professor, Director of the Area of Concentration in IPIT Law, and Director of Western Intellectual Property & Innovation Legal Clinic (WIPILC) (Faculty of Law, Western University) for his commitment to this project.