Catherine D. Mutala has been called to both the Manitoba and the British Columbia Bars. She attended New York University on full scholarship where she obtained her Master's degree specializing in intellectual and industrial property law. She was a member of the Patented Medicines Prices Review Board from 1990 to 1995 and has lectured on trademark law for both the Faculty of Law of the University of British Columbia (since 1986) and the University of Victoria. She contributed to the Copyright Society of America sponsored Kamenstein Legislative History Project on the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act, has published numerous papers on trademark, trade secret and other intellectual property law topics and is a frequent lecturer at Continuing Legal Education programs. She is a member of the Canadian Bar Association, the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada and the Trademark Association of British Columbia.