We are used to decisions about non-traditional trade marks not deserving protection in the European Union, leading to the inevitable conclusion that non-traditional trade marks can be difficult to register and keep on the register.
The recent McCain decision of the EU General Court seems to go in the opposite direction, providing some guidance on which proof of use will be sufficient for a non-traditional trade mark to stay on the EU register (see here).backgroundsMcCain GmbH applied to register the below smiley potato chip shape (known as the Smiles) for “pre-fried potato croquettes and mashed potato products, deep-frozen” in…
CBC Quebec is highlighting people from the province’s Black communities who are giving back, inspiring others and helping to shape our future. These are the 2023 Black Changemakers.Idil Issa fights for the causes that she believes in and works to help others get their voices heard, too.
The McGill University law student has spent more than five years lobbying for human rights in Quebec, particularly voicing her opposition to restrictions on the wearing of religious symbols.
Issa, who grew up in Winnipeg and Toronto, first came to Montreal for university. After doing international communications work for a decade, she…
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Kyle Busch was detained at a Mexican airport late last month when a handgun and ammunition were discovered in his luggage, the NASCAR star acknowledged this week, apologizing for the incident and calling it “a mistake.”
Busch was sentenced this month to 3 1/2 years in prison and ordered to pay a US$1,000 fine for having a gun and ammunition, a punishment handed down by a judge in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, home to beach destinations Cancun and Tulum .
The federal Attorney General’s Office said the judge decided to allow a conditional punishment and…
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On April 27, Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act (OSA), received royal assent. This new law amends the Broadcasting Act and will have significant implications for providers of digital streaming services.
The OSA creates a new class of broadcast undertakings (“online undertakings”) under the Broadcasting Act and subjects them to a number of new requirements comparable to those already imposed on traditional radio and television broadcasters in Canada. The OSA defines “online undertaking” broadly as an undertaking for the transmission or retransmission of programs over the Internet for reception by the public by means of broadcasting receiving apparatus – a…
Former President Donald Trump’s latest run for the White House is being hampered by a slew of legal onslaughts, the latest being a federal indictment for mishandling classified information and lying about it. That’s in addition to a New York state felony indictment for falsifying business records and a jury’s verdict that he is civilly liable for sexual assaulting a woman. The cases could bring further distractions and produce more unflattering revelations — not to mention adverse verdicts — that no presidential candidate would welcome. Trump is no normal politician, though, and the legal scrutiny could feed his preferred narrative…
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Emily Waster PettusPublished June 02, 2023 • 3 minute readFILE – Absentee ballots waiting to be processed at the Lee County Circuit Clerk’s Office in Tupelo, Miss., on Nov. 3, 2020. A lawsuit filed Wednesday, May 31, 2023, seeks to block a Mississippi law that will put new restrictions on who can gather other people’s absentee ballots. The law is set to take effect July 1, and the lawsuit argues that it could disfranchise voters with disabilities by preventing them from receiving…
Washington, D.C. – It is not often that Republicans and Democrats in the United States find common ground, but this week, officials from both major parties pursued a shared cause – bashing a New York law school graduate for a speech criticizing Israel.
Democratic Congressman Ritchie Torres called The City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law graduates “crazed”; former Republican candidate for governor Lee Zeldin described the speech as “raging anti-Semitism”; Major Eric Adams characterized it as “words of negativity and division”.
Even Republican Senator Ted Cruz, of Texas, joined the pile-on of condemnations against the Yemeni-American graduate…