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Marking your Territory: Key Amendments to the Trademarks Act and the Effect on the Entertainment Industry

By Meredith Bacal
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Wiping the Slate Clean: When Fake Movie Products Have Real-World Counterparts

By Bob Tarantino
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Depicting Trade-marks in Artistic Works: University of Alabama vs New Life Art

Although a decision from the US 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has limited precedential value in Canadian courts, the decision in […]

By Bob Tarantino
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Sounds Like a Revolution – Trade-marking Sounds in Canada

On March 28, 2012, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) announced that it is now accepting applications for “sound marks”.  […]

By Bob Tarantino
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Protecting Fictional Trade-Marks

Back in April of 2010, we posted about efforts in the UK undertaken by the producers of Coronation Street to […]

By Bob Tarantino
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Titles and Trademarks (and Cigarettes!) in Film and TV Projects

As we’ve discussed previously here at the Signal (Title Dispute – Similar or Identical Titles for Film and TV Projects) […]

By Bob Tarantino
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Company Buys Marilyn Monroe’s Image Rights – But For How Long?

It reads like a bit of a stretch to find some “Canadian content”, but when CBC News reported late last week […]

By Bob Tarantino
  • Copyright
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Title Dispute – Similar or Identical Titles for Film and TV Projects

Aaron Moss, writing at Law Law Land, has a great post about identical or similar movie titles: Reuse and Confuse? […]

By Bob Tarantino
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Remembrance Day Poppies and Online Uses

[It’s November, and Remembrance Day is only a handful of days away, so the topic of this post is bound […]

By Bob Tarantino
  • Trademarks

Jersey Shore Trade-marks: The (Canadian) Situation

A flurry of stories appeared in August 2010 about the stymied efforts of Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, cast member of the […]

By Bob Tarantino
  • Movies
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Trade-mark Protection for a Fictional Beer

The UK’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has issued a trade-mark decision (Trademark Inter-partes Decision O/359/09 [.pdf] – hat tip to […]

By Bob Tarantino

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