Round and Round: Ajit Trademark Litigation 10 Years In
Background Hamdard Trust and Navsun Holdings have engaged in a longstanding litigation over the use of the term “Ajit” in their trade-marks...Read More
Some Degree Of Expected Confusion With A Weak Trademark Not Enough To Prevent Registration
On February 5, 2018, Justice LeBlanc released his Judgment and Reasons in 2018 FC 121 involving the applicant, Assurant, Inc. and the...Read More
Know Your Role: Court Boots Expert Reports Providing Opinions On Domestic Law
The Federal Court has allowed a pre-trial motion to strike expert reports and bar the authors of those reports from testifying at...Read More
Sweet Relief On Appeal: HONEY Has Its Trade-Mark Registration Restored By Federal Court
The Federal Court has reversed the Trade-marks Opposition Board in another decision dealing with the evidentiary standard applied in a section 45...Read More
PIRANHA Bites Back: Federal Court Reverses Expungement of Saw Blade Trademark
The Federal Court in The Black & Decker Corporation v. Method Law Professional Corporation, has reversed a decision of the Registrar of Trade-marks...Read More
Supertek’s Trademark Counterclaim Against Mishnan Hosed
In E Mishan & Sons v Supertek Canada, 2016 FC 986, Justice Hughes of the Federal Court dismissed Supertek’s claim for damages...Read More
On to the next round: Some of Apotex’s claims for being kept off the sildenafil market survive motion to strike
In Apotex Inc. v. Pfizer Ireland Pharmaceuticals et al., 2016 ONSC 4966, Pfizer was looking to strike out claims brought against it...Read More
Federal Court Dismisses Trade Mark Infringement Suit: No Actual Confusion of Co-Existing Marks
In Scott Technologies, Inc. v. 783825 Alberta Ltd., 2015 FC 1336, Justice Zinn dismissed all of the plaintiff’s allegations of trademarks infringement...Read More