Canadian Trademarks Office (TMO) Update- Practice Notice on Extensions of Time in Examination and Section 44.1 Notice.

Update from the Canadian Trademarks Office - Practice Notice on Extensions of Time in Examination and Section 44.1 Notice. https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cipointernet-internetopic.nsf/eng/wr04736.html

By |2021-07-27T06:43:40-05:00July 27th, 2021|Idea2Ideal, News, Trademarks|0 Comments

Canadian Trademarks Office (TMO) – Update on Exclusionary Language Used in Office Actions

Canadian Trademarks Office - Update on Exclusionary Language Used in wording of Goods/Services in response to Office Actions In a Practice Notice dated July 19, 2021, The Canadian Trademarks Office (TMO) updated its guidance on the use of exclusionary language in goods and services in response to office actions (generally used to overcome confusion objections). [...]

By |2021-07-27T06:43:49-05:00July 27th, 2021|Idea2Ideal, News, Trademarks|0 Comments

CIPO Updates – Expedited Trademark Examinations in Limited Instances

Expedited Examination in Limited Instances In view of ongoing extensive wait times in examination, the Trademarks Office announced on May 3, 2021 it will accept requests for expedited trademark examination. These requests must be submitted in the form of a Statutory Affidavit or Declaration. No fees apply. See the information provided in the link: https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cipointernet-internetopic.nsf/eng/wr04946.html There [...]

By |2021-06-17T11:55:08-05:00May 12th, 2021|Idea2Ideal, News, Trademarks|0 Comments

Innovation in Canada – How do we measure up?

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) tabled its Annual Report for 2016–2017 in Canada’s House of Commons on February 2, 2018. A copy of the full report can be found here. In its notice to the profession CIPO wrote: “Last year, we advanced our work to modernize Canada's IP system, improve the quality of the [...]

By |2024-07-11T06:36:31-05:00February 6th, 2018|Idea2Ideal|0 Comments

CERTIFICATES OF REGISTRATION HONOURING CANADA’S 150TH BIRTHDAY

In honour of Canada’s 150th, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office has announced a commemorative design to appear on its certificates issued in 2017.  The commemorative nature of these certificates will have no impact on the substantive rights found in the underlying registration and are solely cosmetic in nature. Contact Andrews Robichaud to apply to [...]

By |2017-06-15T18:24:38-05:00March 29th, 2017|Canada 150|0 Comments

CIPO UPDATES TO THE 11TH EDITION OF THE NICE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office has announced it has updated the trade-marks Goods and Services Manual to reflect the issuance of the 11th edition of the Nice Classification by the World Intellectual Property Office. While adherence to the Nice Classification is not currently mandatory in Canada, its adoption has completed the legislative process and [...]

By |2017-06-07T17:49:42-05:00January 11th, 2017|News|0 Comments
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