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Playing Nice: CIPO to accept applications with Nice Classifications this fall
In a milestone step towards harmonization of Canada’s trade-mark regime with most other developed countries, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) announced yesterday that starting this fall, it will accept trade-mark applications filed with goods and services classified using the Nice Classification system. According to CIPO’s announcement, there will be changes to its website to [...]
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Managing the transition: the impact of Canada’s amended Trademarks Act on pending trade-mark applications
The recent amendments to Canada’s Trade-marks Act present many interesting opportunities and challenges to brand owners and their counsel. This article focuses primarily on the impacts for Canadian trademark applications that are pending at the time the amended Act comes into force—that is, applications that have been filed with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) [...]
View the full post »Canadian Intellectual Property Office posts proposed amendments to Trade-marks Regulations
The Canadian Intellectual Property Office has today posted proposed amendments to the Trade-marks Regulations at http://bit.ly/1xCOIEj The consultation period for these proposed amendments is from October 1 to November 30, 2014. As quoted in CIPO’s press release: “The proposed regulatory amendments to the Trade-marks Regulations are required to enable Canada to accede to the Singapore Treaty on the [...]
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