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The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) recently announced a significant change to its practice regarding the grant of extensions of time in its examination of ... Continued
Federal Court decision suggeste that book titles are prima facie not properly registrable trade-marks in Canada
CIPO recently launched a new consulation on possible Canadian accession to Madrid Protocol and Singapore Treaty
Further to an earlier post, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (“CIPO”) has announced a change in practice with respect to the granting of extensions of ... Continued
Federal Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal over GLAMOUR trade-mark dispute
As an update to our June 2009 edition of Knowledge Bytes regarding the expansion of generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), it appears that there will ... Continued
Loro Piana S.P.A. v. Canadian Council of Professional Engineers is a further example of the importance of providing proper evidence in response to a Registrar’s ... Continued
An Order in Council has amended Schedule 2 of the Olympic and Paralympic Marks Act to add 38 new marks to the prohibited marks list. ... Continued
Jose Cuervo S.A. de C.V. v. Bacardi & Company Ltd. and the Registrar of Trade-marks was the second time that Bacardi had sought summary expungement, ... Continued
Federal Court considered colour marks (green and greeyish -green)
In a recent decision of Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal, Masterpiece Inc. v. Alavida Lifestyles Inc. the Appellant sought to expunge the Respondent’s registered trademark MASTERPIECE ... Continued
Dispute over use of GOURMET appealed to Federal Court