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Chad Finkelstein is a franchise lawyer and registered trademark agent at Dale & Lessmann LLP (www.dalelessmann.com) in Toronto.

However, the Madrid system is really just a centralized filing program, explains trademark agent Cynthia Rowden, a partner at Bereskin & Parr LLP in Toronto.

This will provide Canadian clients who use patent and trademark agents, whether or not also lawyers, more secure protection of their confidential communications.

«If we were to go the international route, even national applications would have to be filed identifying the number of classes covered by the application,» says trademark agent Johanne Auger, a partner at BCF LLP in Montreal.

Privilege for Patent and Trademark Agents — Statutory privilege, similar to solicitor - client privilege is being introduced for registered patent and trademark agents.

Registered patent and trademark agents are able to represent applicants before the Canadian Intellectual Property Office.

In Canada the law had been that non-lawyer patent agents or trademark agents do not benefit from professional legal privilege.

New requirements are coming for lawyers wanting to become patent and trademark agents.

As a result of Bill C - 59, when passed, clients will enjoy a statutory privilege in their client communications with Canadian patent and trademark agents.

Privilege for patent and trademark agents has been a particular standing request of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC).

Trademark Factory ® (http://trademarkfactory.com) is the only place in the world where licensed lawyers and registered trademark agents will help you register your trademarks with a free trademark search, for a single all - inclusive flat fee and a 100 % money - back guarantee.

As of June 30, I gave up my lawyer license and continue running Trademark Factory International Inc. with my trademark agent license.

Steven Z. Raber, LL.B., F.I.P.I.C., is a lawyer, trained mediator and registered trademark agent.

In 2014, Mincov Law Corporation welcomed the addition of Anita Mar, a registered trademark agent with years of experience at several major Canadian intellectual property law firms, where she filed over 1,000 trademark applications, responded to over 2,000 office actions, participated in over 50 oppositions and over 40 cancellation proceedings.

For many startups the cost of getting a trademark through a trademark agent may be prohibitive, so they end up without a trademark or with a poorly drafted trademark application.

The SCC decision in AstraZeneca «reaffirms that Canada has a strong patent system, and as a jurisdiction it can be attractive in terms of IP rights: both law and remedies,» says Steven Garland, an intellectual property litigator and a patent and trademark agent with Smart & Biggar / Fetherstonhaugh in Ottawa.

He is also a registered trademark agent.

I have worked with paralegals and patent agents and trademark agents many of whom had years of experience, multiple advanced degrees, and were extremely knowledgeable on the legal requirements applicable to the work they do.

Andrei Mincov Founder and CEO of Trademark Factory ® (http://trademarkfactory.com), the only firm in the world where licensed lawyers and trademark agents help entrepreneurs and businesses from around the world trademark their brands with a free comprehensive trademark search, for a single all - inclusive flat fee, with a 100 % money - back guarantee.

«In our current system, there's no way to recognize a non-person [such as Sophia] as an author or inventor, but in the future there could be,» says Stephen Martin, a partner, patent and trademark agent at Ridout & Maybee LLP in Toronto.

We serve lawyers, patent and trademark agents and other professionals, governments and businesses, organizations and individuals.

We guarantee that a trademark professional (trademark agent or trademark attorney) will work on your file (not an assistant, not a paralegal, not a machine).

LuAnne Morrow is counsel and regional leader of our Calgary Intellectual Property Group and is as well a commercial media and branding lawyer and registered Canadian trademark agent.

Andrei Mincov Owner of Trademark Factory International Inc (formerly Mincov Law Corporation) Registered trademark agent

Numerous sites (I won't embarrass any one firm by singling it out with a link) have an entire section grandly called «Our Professionals» — but when you scan its contents, you see lawyers and only lawyers therein (save for a few lucky patent and trademark agents).

Unless the anachronistic idea of licensing lawyers becomes a thing of the past, current laws and regulations prohibit us from offering legal advice outside of what registered trademark agents are allowed to do.

Steven Z. Raber is a Winnipeg - based lawyer, registered trademark agent, and trained mediator.

Bereskin & Parr is made up of more than 70 lawyers and patent and trademark agents, many of whom are recognized as leading practitioners in their specialized fields.

Our intellectual property lawyers and patent and trademark agents assist with a wide range of services including applications, transfer agreements, franchise contracts, negotiating agreements, procurement of patents, trademarks, industrial designs, trade secrets, IP infringement, unfair competition, dispute resolutions, drafting and obtaining IP rights and many others to clients worldwide.

Our intellectual property lawyers and trademark agents regularly assist businesses and government offices with protection of their valuable trademarks.

As of June 30, I will give up my lawyer license and continue running Trademark Factory International Inc. with my trademark agent license.

Interestingly, lawyers who are not licensed as trademark agents in Canada, may not file trademarks in Canada on behalf of their clients.

After four more years, I became a Canadian lawyer and a registered trademark agent, and started my own law firm.

In Canada, only trademark agents can represent clients before the Canadian Intellectual Property Office.

Eric is also a registered Canadian trademark agent.

The same issue arises for lawyers who are also registered trademark agents.

As to trademark agents see Visa International Service Assn. v. Visa Travel International Ltd. (1983), 74 C.P.R. (2d) 243 (FCTD).

The statutory reform aids the preservation of the confidential client relationship between both non-lawyer as well as lawyers who are registered patent and trademark agents.

The scope of the statutory privilege would apply in cases where the trademark agent is seeking to advise on «any matter» in respect of «the protection of a trade - mark, geographical indication or mark referred to in paragraph 9 (1)(e), (i), (i. 1), (i. 3), (n) or (n. 1)».

Philip Mendes da Costa, managing partner of Bereskin & Parr LLP, an intellectual property law boutique firm withfour offices and more than 70 lawyers and patent and trademark agents.

In fact, there are only nine of us actively practising in the area that I know of and, of that nine, three are in - house and only five are registered trademark agents.

Sim IP Practice Toronto simip.com A 2012 re-branding saw Sim Lowman Ashton & McKay LLP, the partnership of lawyers, and Sim & McBurney, a partnership of patent and trademark agents, become known jointly as Sim IP Practice.

• Prospective IP practitioners must pass the notoriously difficult patent and / or trademark agent exams to practise; pass rates are in the low single digits.

It has more than 250 professionals (lawyers, notaries, paralegals and patent and trademark agents) who advise Quebec clients seeking to expand their activities in Canada or abroad as well as Canadian and international firms seeking to grow their activities in Quebec.

Similarly to the patent reform, where a trademark agent is working in another country that also provides a privilege in that country, communications that meet the above criteria would be privileged in Canada.

Not exact matches

And whether you hire an attorney or agent, it's best to choose one who is registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

REALTOR ® is a trademark that identifies real estate agents in Canada who are members of the Canadian Real Estate Association.

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Does a professor have the skills to function as a patent agent and search the records of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to confirm that the relevant IP is not afoul of some existing patent?

Though our Patent Referral Program, one of our preferred Patent Attorneys / Agents will take all steps necessary to obtain whatever level of Patent or Trademark protection is needed for us to safely promote your invention in front of the mass consuming market.