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Overcoming Standard Objections to Trademark Applications in Canada
May 16th, 2012

Many people will register their own marks, which is much like setting your own broken arm – you can do it, but you may run into some problems that can’t be ignored.  You may be looking for information on how … Continue reading →... Read more »

Trade-marks Sound Bank
April 25th, 2012

The trade-marks office recently started accepting sound marks.  This has been going on in the US for quite some time, but has been refused in Canada until recently since the office imposed a requirement that marks be visual in nature. … Continue reading →... Read more »

Frequently Asked Startup Questions
February 8th, 2012

I love meeting with entrepreneurs, their passion, energy and guts are inspiring.  Entrepreneurs starting a new business usually have a million questions, lots of uncertainty, and usually no money to pay the many bills that arise before ‘going live’.  Here … Continue reading ͛... Read more »

SCC Copyright Hearing Bonanza
December 7th, 2011

Today I didn’t get as much work done as I had hoped.  While this is a common lament from me, today I had an extra awesome reason – COPYRIGHT SUPREME COURT HEARING WEBSTREAMING BONANZA!!! Today and tomorrow the Supreme Court … Continue reading →... Read more »

Crookes v. the Internet – SCC on Internet Defamation
October 20th, 2011

A new Supreme Court of Canada decision has been released – Crookes v. Newton aka ‘the Internet’ (he originally sued Google and Wikipedia as well). Intellectual property lawyers like me get geeky excited when a new IP decision gets released … Continue reading →... Read more »

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