Archive for the "Foreign Protection" Category
Of London, Lithuania And A Popular Tree
A recent story in the London Free Press shows just how powerful Canadian trade-marks are becoming throughout the world – causing a country half a world away to drop a tree design that it had recently chosen to be the symbol for its latest tourism campaign. A similar tree design is the subject of an [...]
Only in Canada? Official Marks – Public Authorities must be Canadian
The Supreme Court of Canada today released its judgment dismissing with costs the U.S. Postal Services’s application for leave to appeal a decision of the Federal Court (Canada Post Corporation v. United States Postal Service). Canada Post had brought an application for judicial review of the decision of the Registrar of Trade-marks giving public [...]
8,500 Trademark Lawyers Under One Roof?
As Michael Atkins of the Seattle Trademark Lawyer recently reported, the International Trademark Association (INTA) held its annual meeting in Chicago last week. More than 8,500 trademark professionals were under one very large roof of the McCormick Place Convention Centre. Authors from the Canadian Trademark Blog were also in attendance, running from meetings to receptions [...]
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