The Federal Court of Canada, in a May 2022 decision, 1 has ordered a B.C. man’s trademark registration to be expunged for “bad faith” after finding it was filed solely for the purpose of resale. This ...

Submitting a trademark is a way to protect your intellectual property. Learn how to submit a trademark properly, how it ...

Today's decision in Vidal v. Elster unanimously upheld a federal trademark law provision that bars federal registration of any trademark that "[c]onsists of or comprises a name … identifying a ...

In the past few years, there has been a significant rise in misleading notices directed to owners of trademark applications and registrations. Such misleading scams are solicitations often trying to ...

The court on Thursday unanimously rejected an attempt to force the Patent and Trademark Office to accept the registration “Trump too small” as a trademark for T-shirts mocking the former president.

In Canada, trademark owners may wish to use trademark symbols — i.e., ®, TM, MC and MD — to signify a claimed trademark and ...

The fact that the applicant had applied to register a large number of trademarks for various goods and services did not suffice to prove that the contested trademark had been filed in bad faith.

Mohamed Jameel Hamid and Alicia van der Walt of Adams & Adams unpack the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement, ...

Charles Feng and Lian Xue of Tahota Law Firm summarise the main points under a reform of China’s trademark registration application system and consider Japan’s approach in this area The CNIPA’s ...