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Biography
Michael D. Manson is a justice with the Federal Court of Canada, appointed October 5, 2012, replacing Justice D.R. Campbell.
Prior to his appointment, he was a lawyer with the law firm Smart & Biggar in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Education and career
Michael D. Manson was born in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Manson attended McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1976 and with a Diploma of Education in 1978. He then earned an L.L.B. degree from the University of British Columbia in 1982.
He was admitted to the Bars of Ontario in 1984 and British Columbia in 1995.
After finishing his education, he became Associate and later, Partner at Smart & Biggar in the years 1984-2012. In 1996-2012, he was an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Victoria.
He became a registered trade-mark agent in 1984 and a registered patent agent in 1989. His main area of practice was intellectual property law. He has authored more than one hundred articles and papers on intellectual property, trade-mark patents, and copyright law.
In 2012, he was selected Vancouver Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers; Preeminent IP Litigation Lawyer in British Columbia by Benchmark Canada; and Canadian Outstanding IP Practitioner by Managing Intellectual Property.
He was a Fellow of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada and of the Litigation Counsel of America.