Trademarks
Wiping the Slate Clean: When Fake Movie Products Have Real-World Counterparts
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 […]
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”. […]
Protecting Fictional Trade-Marks
Back in April of 2010, we posted about efforts in the UK undertaken by the producers of Coronation Street to […]
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) […]
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 […]
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? […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]