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Trademark registrants take note – a recent decision from the Trademarks Opposition Board (TMOB) highlights the relatively low evidentiary threshold required to maintain a...
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In a recent decision on a motion to strike, the Federal Court struck a patent infringement statement of claim in its entirety, with leave...
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The Canadian Intellectual Property Office’s (CIPO) 2025 pilot project on Registrar-initiated trademark registration expungement has begun to result in the expungement of trademark registrations,...
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In Products Unlimited, Inc. v. Five Seasons Comfort Limited, the Federal Court provided guidance on recently amended subsection 56(5) of the Trademarks Act and...
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A trademark application in Canada may be objected to by a trademark examiner on a number of grounds, including if the trademark consists of...
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Since April 1, 2025, the Trademarks Regulations has permitted the Registrar to order costs, on request, against a party in summary trademark expungement proceedings...
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Businesses acquiring Canadian trademarks that may have fallen into disuse should take note: in Comité interprofessionnel du vin de champagne v. Coors Brewing Company,...
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The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) recently published its IP Canada Report 2025. The report highlights recent IP filing trends across patents, trademarks, industrial...
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A trademark registration grants the owner the “exclusive right to the use throughout Canada of the trademark in respect of those goods or services”...
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Novartis AG is the owner of a Canadian trademark registration for BEOVU for use in relation to pharmaceutical preparations for treating neovascular age-related macular...
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