INCREASING BUSINESS VALUE THROUGH TRADE-MARKS
The choice, protection and integrity of a brand, of the name of a product or service, are cornerstones of business success.
In order to establish this essential business foundation, companies must be able to rely on experts who advise them in the best possible choice of trade-marks, and ways to protect and enhance their value.
ID® TRADEMARK provides front line assistance to meet these challenges through the following consulting services:
Trade-mark analysis
We launch and analyze the search, and offer you a legal opinion concerning the trade-mark's availability and registrability. We can combine this search with the verification of the corresponding Internet domain name and company name, and reserve them for you.
Registration applications
• Ordinary trade-marks
• Descriptive marks with an acquired distinctive character [Sect. 12.(2)] or not without a distinctive character (Sect. 14)
• Distinguishing guises
• Certification marks
• Applications for public notice of adoption of official marks
• Paris Convention priority claim, when applicable
Responses to Office Actions
• Argumentation to overcome objections of confusion and descriptivity
• Formalities
Maintenance of registration validity
• Renewal
• Periodic analysis of trade-mark sampling
• Trade-mark watch
Opposition proceedings
• Drafting of statements of opposition / counter-statements of opposition
• Evidence in accordance with Federal Court rules
• Cross-examination
• Written arguments
• Hearings before the Registrar of Trade-marks
Expungement proceedings (Section 45 Notice)
• Use investigations
• Application for issuance of a Section 45 Notice
• Evidence in accordance with the Federal Court rules
• Written arguments
• Hearings before the Registrar of Trade-marks
Other proceedings
• Verification of licenses / trade-mark franchise contracts
• Registration of transfer or other modifications in the trade-mark Register
• Registration / cancellation of trade-mark security interest (loan guarantee)
• Registration of corresponding Internet domain names
• Incorporation of companies
• Border enforcement of registered trade-marks (where applicable)
• Entry in the CIDREQ Register
Management of trade-mark portfolio
• Trade-mark portfolio inventory
• Elaboration and implementation of international protection strategies
• Assisting in trade-mark valorization strategies
Other consulting services:
• Franchise / license: consulting services in protecting and granting the right to use the trade-mark
• Exportation: consulting services for trade-mark exploitation and protection strategy at the international level
• Internet: consulting services for Internet trade-mark exploitation and protection strategy, and for Internet domain names
Let ID® TRADEMARK protect your intellectual property rights. Contact us at 450-446-5300 for an exploratory consultation.
