Canadian trademark law provides protection to marks by statute under the Trademarks Act and also at common law. Trademark law provides protection for...
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dictionary. Trademark law Australian trademark law Canadian trademark law China trademark law United Kingdom trademark law United States trademark law Indian...
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Under Canadian trade-mark law, the "doctrine of functionality" provides that features that are primarily functional in nature cannot be registered as...
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SCC 23, [2006] 1 SCR 824 (2 June 2006) Canadian trade-mark law Passing off; trademark registration in Canadian law Mattel, Inc. v. 3894207 Canada Inc....
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An unregistered trademark or common law trademark is an enforceable mark created by a business or individual to signify or distinguish a product or service...
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as a part of trademark law. Notable examples include the U.S. Trademark Dilution Revision Act (TDRA), Section 22 of the Canadian Trademarks Act (TMA), and...
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Singapore Treaty and the Nice Agreement for trademarks; and the Patent Law Treaty for patents. Prior to 2019, Canada had joined the TRIPS Agreement and the...
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In Canada, passing off is both a common law tort and a statutory cause of action under the Canadian Trade-marks Act referring to the deceptive representation...
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A generic trademark, also known as a genericized trademark or proprietary eponym, is a trademark or brand name that, because of its popularity or significance...
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responsibilities are contracted to the federal Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Canadian Aboriginal law provides certain constitutionally recognized rights...
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Trademark distinctiveness is an important concept in the law governing trademarks and service marks. A trademark may be eligible for registration, or registrable...
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Trademark infringement is a violation of the exclusive rights attached to a trademark without the authorization of the trademark owner or any licensees...
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Official mark (category Canadian trademark law)
filed with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office to be published in the Trademarks Journal and are searchable through the Canadian Trade-marks Database...
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The registered trademark symbol, ®, is a typographic symbol that provides notice that the preceding word or symbol is a trademark or service mark that...
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one or the other or even both may use the name, depending on local trademark law. Beer brewing in the city of České Budějovice (German: Budweis), which...
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patent law, trademark law, and copyright law. Increasingly however, large multi-discipline law firms are establishing trademark practices. Trademark attorneys...
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three lists of generic and genericized trademarks are: marks which were originally legally protected trademarks, but have been genericized and have lost...
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Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that serves as the national patent office and trademark registration...
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Microsoft v. MikeRoweSoft (category United States trademark case law)
a Canadian Belmont High School student named Mike Rowe, who was 17, over the domain name "MikeRoweSoft.com". Microsoft argued that their trademark had...
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Canadian defamation law refers to defamation law as it stands in both common law and civil law jurisdictions in Canada. As with most Commonwealth jurisdictions...
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Trademark dilution is a trademark law concept giving the owner of a famous trademark standing to forbid others from using that mark in a way that would...
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alphabetical listing of historically significant or leading case law in the area of US trademark law. Contents: Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S...
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publish in Canada, as colonial copyright law only granted protection in Canada. The Canadian government sought to further strengthen the Canadian print industry...
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The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) is an administrative tribunal within the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The TTAB is empowered...
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"Barbie’s" with the Trademark Office, based on the likelihood of confusion in the marketplace between the two names. The Supreme Court of Canada upheld the decision...
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Opposition proceeding (redirect from Opposition (patent law))
proceeding is an administrative process available under the patent and trademark law of many jurisdictions which allows third parties to formally challenge...
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Ciba-Geigy Canada Ltd. v. Apotex Inc., [1992] 3 SCR 120,[1] is a Supreme Court of Canada judgment on trademark law and more specifically the issue of...
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Wordmark (category Law stubs)
needed] and are listed in uppercase by trademark registrars such as the United States Patent and Trademark Office,[citation needed] even if they are...
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number of law schools in Canada operate as a faculty or as an affiliated school to a Canadian public university. Twenty law schools offer common law schooling...
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the Federal Court of Canada. Registered Establishments and Accredited Laboratories are under its purview, as are national trademarks and trade in agricultural...
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