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Olympic Trademark Legislation
The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) is seeking legislation from the federal government that will allow it to deal more effectively with persons who misuse Olympic marks. In its annual report released this week, VANOC explains that it is in discussions with Canadian government officials regarding a special [...]
September Case Law
There are two trade-mark cases from the Canadian Courts in September 2006 of interest to readers. In Cafe’ Do Brasil, S.p.A. v. Walong Marketing Inc., the Federal Court agreed with the applicant, an Italian food products company, and expunged a registered trade-mark owned by the respondent. The respondent’s registered trade-mark, KIMBO, was identical to the [...]
Creative Trade-marks for Wine
Applications to the Canadian Trade-marks Registrar evidence the growing trend towards ever more interesting and entertaining wine labels. Witness the following marks advertised in the Canadian Trade-marks Journal over the course of the last 3 months. Mighty Good Water (Application No. 1,261,728), Eighty Links (Application No. 1,268,597), Dancing Bull (Application No. 1,286,717), Brain Storm (Application [...]
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