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Office Closure: Our office will be closed on
Monday May 21 for Victoria day (Canada) or National
Patriots Day (Québec).
Generally due dates for
patent and trade-mark matters falling on national holidays will be
carried-over to the next business day, however please do not
hesitate to contact us should you be concerned about any due
dates during this period.
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MARCH 29, 2012: SOUND MARKS
The
Canadian Trade-Marks Office is now accepting Sound Mark
Applications. The Official announcement and practice notice can
be accessed here.
This is a monumental reversal of
previous practice as the Canadian Office has long since held
that sound cannot function as a trade-mark. This change is the
result of a Federal Court order stemming from an appeal against the
Office's refusal of a sound-mark application.
We encourage our clients with an
interest in protecting sound marks to contact us to explore this
further.
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Founded in
1934 by Alex E. MacRae, MacRae & Co. offers expert
cost-effective intellectual property protection services. Our firm
is composed of seven professionals and a skilled administrative
staff of approximately fifteen employees, and is considered to be
one of the high volume application filers with the Canadian Trade-Marks
Office. All our Professionals are registered patent agents and/or
trade-mark agents and have strong qualifications coming from a
variety of backgrounds with different areas of expertise, including
biotechnology, information systems, electrical, aerospace and mechanical
engineering, and are members of the Intellectual Property Institute
of Canada (IPIC), the professional association for Patent and
Trade-mark matters in Canada. We are well-versed in patent,
trade-mark, industrial design, copyright and integrated circuit
topography practice.
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Our offices
are located at 222 Somerset Street West, in downtown Ottawa, in the
National Capital Region consisting of the cities of Ottawa, Ontario,
and Gatineau Québec. The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO),
the government agency responsible for administering the greater part
of Canada's intellectual property regime, and home to the Patent and
Trade-mark Offices, is a short distance away in downtown Gatineau,
Quebec. We therefore have easy access to CIPO's extensive official
paper records which include much information that is still unavailable
online, and its exclusive on-site databases whenever necessary. Over
the years, we have also been able to develop close personal contacts
with the Office staff
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