Noelle Engle-Hardy

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Recent News:

17 Cozen O’Connor Attorneys Named Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch in Canada

Best Lawyers Canada has named 17 Cozen O’Connor lawyers from the firm’s Toronto and Vancouver offices in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada.

Noelle’s practice focuses on intellectual property disputes and litigation in a variety of industries including consumer packaged goods, sporting goods, videogames, alcohol, food and beverage products, luxury goods, professional sports, pharmaceuticals, furniture and lighting, clothing and cosmetics, cannabis, casino and real estate development, franchise and fine art. Noelle has experience at all stages of litigation, from obtaining Anton Piller Orders and interlocutory injunctive relief, to successfully arguing multiple appeals before the Federal Court of Appeal.

Noelle is a registered trademark agent. She advises clients, ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies, on all aspects of trademark clearance, providing nuanced and business-focused risk assessments. Noelle helps her clients secure timely trademark registration in Canada, and routinely drafts evidence to expedite her client’s trademark applications and respond to a variety of complex objections. Noelle regularly conducts and defends summary expungement and opposition proceedings before the Trademark Opposition Board.

She counsels clients on the protection and enforcement of confidential information and trade secrets. Noelle negotiates and drafts complex domestic and international commercial agreements, and is a trusted adviser for advertising, marketing, consumer product packaging, and regulatory compliance in Canada, and provides guidance on French language law issues.

Noelle's clients also rely on her guidance in copyright and industrial design matters ranging from registration to enforcement. Noelle has acted as litigation counsel in a variety of proceedings before the federal and provincial courts on behalf of clients in a variety of industries, including a national automotive, hardware, sports, leisure, and housewares retailer; a multinational videogame company; a Canadian manufacturer and designer of doors, locks, and entranceway hardware; and a multinational luxury goods conglomerate. Noelle has also acted as counsel before the Copyright Board of Canada on behalf of collective societies and several of Canada's major record labels. Noelle also provides strategic advice and guidance to clients on a variety of copyright matters related to fashion, the internet, social media, publishing and literature, manufacturing, and software.

Prior to joining the firm, Noelle was a senior associate and highly successful practitioner at a prestigious intellectual property boutique, and a successful associate at a full-service national firm.

Noelle earned her bachelor’s degree in biomedical science, with a specialization in microbiology and immunology from McGill University. Noelle graduated, cum laude, from DePaul University College of Law where she served on the Jessup International Moot Court team and was editor of the DePaul Journal of Women, Gender and Law. She was also a three-time recipient of the Dean’s Merit Scholarship. Noelle obtained her LL.M. from the University of Toronto, and was the recipient of a faculty of law fellowship, focusing her thesis on obviousness as a policy lever to govern the scope of gene patents. 

Experience

News

17 Cozen O’Connor Attorneys Named Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch in Canada

September 04, 2024

Best Lawyers Canada has named 17 Cozen O’Connor lawyers from the firm’s Toronto and Vancouver offices in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada.

Cozen O’Connor Announces New Group Chairs, Office Managing Partners, Other Promotions

February 15, 2024

The firm announced several new practice group chairs, office managing partners, and leaders of firm committees and initiatives

U.S. Supreme Court Limits Lanham Act Infringement to Cases Where Use in Commerce Occurred in the United States

February 09, 2024

Noelle Engle-Hardy coauthored an article for the International Trademark Association discussing the U.S. Supreme Court's Abitron decision.

Intellectual Property Department Honored by World Trademark Review 2024

February 06, 2024

Cozen O'Connor’s Intellectual Property Department was recognized by World Trademark Review 1000. Amy Divino, Noelle Engle-Hardy, Lisa Ferrari, Shane Hardy, Ashley Kessler, Lorraine Linford, Camille Miller, Melanie Miller, Brigeeta Richdale, and Edward Weisz were named to the World Trademark Review 1000 list.

Eight Cozen O'Connor Attorneys Recognized as IP Stars by Managing Intellectual Property

June 27, 2023

Eight members of Cozen O'Connor’s Intellectual Property Department, Frank Abramonte, Noelle Engle-Hardy, Thomas Fisher, James Gale, Gregory Gulia, Shane Hardy, Hugh Marbury, and Camille Miller, were named IP Stars by Managing Intellectual Property.

Noelle Engle-Hardy Recognized by International Trademark Association

March 03, 2023

Noelle Engle-Hardy, a member of Cozen O'Connor’s Intellectual Property Department, has been recognized by the International Trademark Association (INTA) as a High-Performing Committee Member.

Cozen O’Connor Attorneys Support Critical Voting Rights Cases

November 01, 2022

We celebrate National Pro Bono Week by sharing the high-impact work of Cozen O’Connor attorneys who have contributed to critical voting rights cases.

Investindustrial’s Agreement to Purchase Majority Stake of Eataly S.p.A

October 17, 2022

Cozen O’Connor served as U.S. and Canadian counsel in Investindustrial’s acquisition of a majority stake in Eataly S.p.A., the global chain of upscale Italian marketplaces. A team led by M&A attorney and Italy Practice chair Christian Moretti conducted significant due diligence of more than 20 Eataly businesses in the United States and Canada, in collaboration with Deloitte Legal Italy and Studio Legale Chiomenti. For nearly two decades, Eataly has been operating high-quality Italian food markets and restaurant concepts in prestigious locations across the globe, including flagship stores in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Dallas, and Silicon Valley.

New IP Litigator at Cozen O’Connor

April 26, 2022

Noelle Engle-Hardy was featured in The Lawyer's Daily's ​article that discussed her joining Cozen O'Connor.

Cozen O’Connor Continues its North American IP Group Buildout, Adding IP Litigator Noelle Engle-Hardy to its Toronto Office

April 25, 2022

Engle-Hardy comes to Cozen O’Connor from Smart & Biggar LLP, where she worked in the firm’s trademark, copyright, industrial design, and litigation practice groups.

Publications

Québec Publishes Final Regulations Under Québec’s Charter of French Language [Alert]

June 28, 2024

Noelle Engle-Hardy and Any Ospina discuss Québec's final amendments to regulations on the language of commerce and business, which change how English-language trademarks can be used on product packaging, signage, advertising, websites, and more.

Canadian Trademarks Opposition Board Reduces Deadlines and Extensions [Alert]

December 04, 2023

From Noelle Engle-Hardy and Any Obando Ospina: CIPO has implemented significantly reduced deadlines and more limited extensions of time in trademark opposition and section 45 proceedings.

Amendments to the Québec Charter of French Language – What Brand Owners Need to Know [Alert]

November 13, 2023

Any Obando Ospina discusses amendments to the Quebec Charter of French Language and what brand owners need to know.

Education

  • DePaul University College of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2010
  • University of Toronto, LL.M., 2011
  • McGill University, B.S., 2006

Awards & Honors

Best Lawyers in Canada, Intellectual Property Law 2025

Euromoney LMG, Rising Star in Trademarks, Expert Guides: Rising Stars 2020-2021

Managing Intellectual Property, IP Star - Rising Star

World Trademark Review 2024

  • Ontario
  • Illinois
  • Ontario Superior Court of Justice

Member, International Trademark Association (INTA), member of the Amicus Committee, 2020-2023