RECORDAL OF TRADE-MARKS LICENCES IN CANADA
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RECORDAL OF TRADE-MARKS LICENCES IN CANADA
1 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 The 1993 amendments to the Act repealed the registered user system and replaced it with the concept of use under licence, without necessity of registration.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. 2 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. 3 ROBIC, un groupe d'avocats et d'agents de brevets et de marques de commerce voué depuis 1892 à la protection et à la valorisation de la propriété intellectuelle dans tous les domaines: brevets, dessins industriels et modèles utilitaires; marques de commerce, marques de certification et appellations d'origine; droits d'auteur, propriété littéraire et artistique, droits voisins et de l'artiste interprète; informatique, logiciels et circuits intégrés; biotechnologies, pharmaceutiques et obtentions végétales; secrets de commerce, know-how et concurrence; licences, franchises et transferts de technologies; commerce électronique, distribution et droit des affaires; marquage, publicité et étiquetage; poursuite, litige et arbitrage; vérification diligente et audit; et ce, tant au Canada qu'ailleurs dans le monde. La maîtrise des intangibles. ROBIC, a group of lawyers and of patent and trademark agents dedicated since 1892 to the protection and the valorization of all fields of intellectual property: patents, industrial designs and utility patents; trademarks, certification marks and indications of origin; copyright and entertainment law, artists and performers, neighbouring rights; computer, software and integrated circuits; biotechnologies, pharmaceuticals and plant breeders; trade secrets, know-how, competition and anti-trust; licensing, franchising and technology transfers; e-commerce, distribution and business law; marketing, publicity and labelling; prosecution litigation and arbitration; due diligence; in Canada and throughout the world. Ideas live here. COPYRIGHTER IDEAS LIVE HERE IL A TOUT DE MÊME FALLU L'INVENTER! LA MAÎTRISE DES INTANGIBLES LEGER ROBIC RICHARD NOS FENÊTRES GRANDES OUVERTES SUR LE MONDE DES AFFAIRES PATENTER R ROBIC ROBIC + DROIT +AFFAIRES +SCIENCES +ARTS ROBIC ++++ ROBIC +LAW +BUSINESS +SCIENCE +ART THE TRADEMARKER GROUP TRADEMARKER VOS IDÉES À LA PORTÉE DU MONDE , DES AFFAIRES À LA GRANDEUR DE LA PLANÈTE YOUR BUSINESS IS THE WORLD OF IDEAS; OUR BUSINESS BRINGS YOUR IDEAS TO THE WORLD 4