Nick CaristinosWhen starting a new business or launching a new product one must consider the registration, and use of trademarks, service marks, copyrights and patents as part of the process, yet there is often much confusion as to what one needs and how to use them correctly.* The International Trademark Association (INTA) [http://www.inta.org] is a not-for-profit…
JuliannaWebnames.ca is pleased to announce our sponsorship of the 83rd annual meeting of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada’s (IPIC) taking place in St. John’s, NFL, from September 23-25, 2009. This is the second year Webnames.ca has sponsored the annual event, speaking at the 2008 event about .TEL rules and policies. Founded in 1926, (IPIC)…
As most trandemark owners know, it can be costly to defensively register domains for all of your trademarks, especially considering the fact that for some types of businesses, pharmaceutical companies for example, this can mean hundreds of domains. With the imminent introduction of new TLD’s, ICANN is considering introducing a trademark database. It’s already quite costly if you’re…
Webnames.ca President, Stephen Smith spoke yesterday to members of the Domain Names & Trademarks on the Internet Committee as an invited speaker at the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada conference in Toronto. Mr Smith spoke to members of the committee for an hour about .TEL and it’s importance to trademark holders including the rules and…
Garrett Saundry