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Descriptive Trade-marks in Canada

By Richard P.W. Stobbe

  Who can get a monopoly on a particular word? Is it fair for someone to get a trade-mark for the word TEACHERS’? Under Canadian trade-mark law, there’s nothing stopping a company from obtaining a trade-mark over almost any word, as long as it meets the registration criteria. One of those criteria is that the word [...]

Full post as published by Intellectual Property in Canada (ipblog.ca) on February 01, 2011 (boomark / email).