Trademarks are intended to allow the public to identify a particular product by providing on the product a name, logo or other identifying marks or appearance which are used to signify the manufacturer or originator of the product.

The trade-mark system is therefore set up in an attempt to avoid confusion arising in which the public is misled inadvertently or deliberately by an infringer into buying a product or service from the wrong supplier. The trade-mark does not in any way protect the product itself so that the product may (unless patented) be copied provided the identifying mark is not copied.

The system prefers that the trade-marks be registered on a list of trade-marks although this is not essential to obtain protection. The system therefore encourages registration by simplifying actions to prevent copying and by restricting the possibility of others to oppose the trade-mark after a period of registration.

Although Ade & Company Inc. does not have any trademark agents on staff, we work with a number of Canadian Trademark Agents.  If you have questions regarding Trademarks or would like to obtain a quotation, we recommend that you contact a Trademark Agent at one of the following firms:

Ronald S. Ade Law Corporation, Contact: Ron Ade 
Aikins MacAulay & Thorvaldson LLP, Contact: Guy Joubert 
Fillmore Riley LLP, Contact: Steven Raber
Taylor McCaffrey LLP, Contact: Nicole Merrick 
Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP, Contact: Silvia de Sousa

Last updated on December 8, 2009 by Adrian Battison