RECORDAL OF TRADE-MARKS LICENCES IN CANADA

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RECORDAL OF TRADE-MARKS LICENCES IN CANADA
Laurent Carrière *
LEGER ROBIC RICHARD, L.L.P.
Lawyers, Patent and Trademark Agents
Centre CDP Capital
1001 Square-Victoria – Bloc E – 8th Floor
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2Z 2B7
Tel. (514) 987 6242 – Fax (514) 845 7874
www.robic.ca – [email protected]
The Trade-marks Office now records, since April 1996, licence agreements and
documents terminating licence agreements, with respect to registered trademarks.
The licence agreement or the document cancelling a licence is placed on
the Office's trade-mark file, and an explanatory note is inscribed on the
register, upon receipt by the Office of the prescribed fee (25 $ per mark).
However, the Office advises that in so doing, it takes no position with respect
to the effect of the recordal of licence agreements and documents
terminating licence agreements.
Before June 9, 1993, the Trade-marks Act included provisions on the recordal
of registered users, i.e. entities or persons to whom the trade-mark owner had
permitted use of the trade-mark. The 1993 amendments to the Act repealed
the registered user system and replaced it with the concept of use under
licence, without necessity of registration.
Section 50 of the Act provides the parameters of use under licence which is
deemed to benefit the registered owner: authorization, designation of the
country covered by the licence, direct or indirect control by the owner of the
character or quality of the wares or services. Section 50(2) also provides that
to the extent that public notice is given of the fact that the use of a trademark is a licensed use, and of the identity of the owner, a licence shall be
presumed to exist.
Section 50, which does not impose formal requirements upon the owner and
his licensee, with respect to their agreement, is not modified by the Trademarks Office's new administrative policy on the recordal of licence
agreements and documents terminating licence agreements. This recordal is
© CIPS, 1997.
* Of LEGER ROBIC RICHARD, L.L.P., a multidisciplinary firm of lawyers, and patent and
trademark agents. Published in the Winter 1997 issue (Vol. 1, No. 1) of our Newsletter.
Publication 068.002E. NOTE. Since the publication of this article, the govermental fees were
doubled.
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made under sub-paragraph 26(2)(c) of the Act, which includes, among the
information to be shown on the register with reference to each registered
trade-mark, a summary of all documents deposited with the application for
registration or subsequently thereto, and affecting the rights to the trademark.
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