Tag Archives: Trademarks

How a chatbot helps you prepare for the Trade-marks Act

Sweeping changes to the Canadian Trade-marks Act will finally be implemented putting Canadian brand owners on equal footing with the rest of the world. Taking effect on June 17, 2019, the changes will allow for the consistent classification of a … Continue reading

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Cannabis Trademarks – The USPTO Issues New Guidance

By Justin McNaughton, Senior Counsel The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) continues to wrangle with cannabis trademarks.  On May 2, 2109, it issued new guidance for examiners on how to handle them.  Arguably, the USPTO’s new guidance is the … Continue reading

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USPTO issues Examination Guidelines for Post-Farm Bill Examination of Trademarks for Cannabis and Cannabis-Related Goods and Services

      After months of uncertainty regarding how the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) was going to be handling trademark applications that recite cannabis-related goods and services following the enactment of the 2018 Farm Bill, the PTO issued Examination … Continue reading

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Paying (or not) fees on registered US patents and trademarks in Venezuela in cryptocurrency

Last month, the Venezuelan Ministry of National Commerce issued a notice requiring patent and trademark fees to be paid in the cryptocurrency issued by the Venezuelan government — the Petro, which supposedly is backed by Venezuela’s oil and mineral reserves. … Continue reading

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Celebrity Trademarks

In today’s blog post, we will look at some of the trademarks that are owned or assigned to celebrities. Tim Tebow Tim Tebow was not only the talk of the football community at one point of time, but he was … Continue reading

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