Hey Alan,
I believe Cira gives non-Canadians the right to back up trademarks from
other countries, if you are doing business in Canada.
However, holding a US trademark doesn't give anyone defacto trademark or
"name" rights in other countries. If a Canadian already has a Canadian
trademark, registered or common use trademark that is the same, and can
prove they were operating in Canada before you attempted to come into the
Canadian market, then as far as i understand, (and i am Not a lawyer), their
rights in Canada are upheld.
time to smoke.
sWerve
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:30:15 -0600
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: CIRA investigates your customers - watch out
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> At 11:12 AM 8/24/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>> If CIRA wont honor the NAFTA Fair Trade agreement allowing US companies equal
>> access too the Canadian Market (ie:Name Space) Maybe US companies will have
>> to
>> block names.ca that confilct with American Companies. names.com .I have
>> several
>> domains that are US trademarks we have the .com .net .mx and want to register
>> .ca . Maybe Quebec will gain their independence and CIRA will lose the .CA
>> TLD
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> BAWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA now thats gotta be the joke of the day... good
> thing its Friday.
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