Glenora Distillers has won a trademark dispute before the FCA over the name of their Canadian single malt whisky, Glen Breton. The Scotch Whisky Association argued that the prefix “glen”…
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The Grey-Market: Are the Benefits Worth the Costs?
Grey market goods are legally-produced goods obtained in a foreign country which are imported into a domestic market via an unauthorized distribution channel. These parallel-import goods are typically obtained in…
Exploring Depreciation of Goodwill as a New Ground of Trade-mark Opposition
Sanjukta Tole is an Osgoode Hall alumnus and practiced with the IP Group of a large Vancouver law firm. In 2006, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in…