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Revisions to Canadian Trademark Act

By AWA | Posted on November 6, 2014

Earlier this year Canada’s government proposed Canada major changes to the Canadian Trademark Act and in June the bill (C-31) received royal assent. The changes enable Canada, as one of the last (if not the last) western industrialized countries, to accede to the Madrid Protocol, Nice Agreement and the Singapore Treaty. Some of the most...

Tags: Canada, Madrid Protocol, Nice Agreement, Singapore Treaty, trademarks

Revisions to the Korean Trademark Act

By AWA | Posted on September 19, 2014

The aim of the revisions, which were implemented in June this year, is to reinforce the position of trademark owners, which the following examples will indicate. The article handling the protection of well known trademarks has become clearer. Now it is clearly stated in the Trademark Act that applications for trademarks which are likely to...

Tags: Japan, Korea, trademarks

Protecting the FIFA brands

By Hanna Hansson | Posted on June 10, 2014

With the 2014 FIFA World Cup coming up in Brazil times are busy for organizer The Fédération Internationale de Football Association, FIFA. FIFA continuously takes action against ambush marketers, advertising or promoting around the World Cup without authorization. The preparations of the 2014 FIFA World Cup were initiated several years ago and an important part...

Tags: FIFA, trademarks

Fatal success

By Claus Marcussen | Posted on February 14, 2014

When introducing a product, the company must have as a goal or at least a hope that the trademark related to the product will become known. Some may even pray for well known or famous. They may get exactly what they hope for and some of those may find themselves cursing the day, when it...

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Changed conditions regarding the possibility to register “geographical” trademarks

By AWA | Posted on February 6, 2014

As you might have heard before, a fundamental requirement for registering a trademark is that the trademark is distinctive, meaning that it must have the ability of distinguishing the goods or services provided from the goods and services of others. The Swedish Trademark Act holds that a trademark might lack distinctiveness inter alia when it...

Tags: geographical origin, sweden, trademarks

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