Arnold Ceballos practices intellectual property law with Pain & Ceballos LLP in Vaughan, Ontario. He obtained his LLM from Osgoode Hall Law School. Like many intellectual property lawyers, I am back in my office recovering from the whirlwind that is the annual meeting of the International Trademark Association. Held in Seattle from May 16 to […]
Ashlee Froese is an Osgoode Hall alumnus and currently practices intellectual property at the law firm of Keyser Mason Ball LLP. What are Geographical Indications in Canada? Geographical Indications ("GIs") are protected indicia that specifically relate to wines and spirits under the Canadian Trade-marks Act ("the Act"). A GI identifies the "quality, reputation or other […]
Ann Bartow is a Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law. One of the cases that always troubled me when I taught Trademark Law was Qualitex v. Jacobson Products Co., in which the U.S. Supreme Court concluded that colors alone could constitute protectable trademarks. Colors could always be protected as part […]