Congratulations To Our Trademark And Advocacy Lawyers

In 51.ca Inc. v. Chun Huang, 2024 FC 1202, members of our Intellectual Property and Advocacy & Dispute Resolution groups, Tamara Ramsey, Kimberley Graham, Nedko Petkov and Sean Zhang, represented our client on a successful application to the Federal Court to expunge a trademark containing four Chinese characters that were held to be confusing with our client’s trademark containing the same four Chinese characters. The decision addresses some unique facts regarding the material date for non-entitlement and incontestability where there was an application to extend the goods and services with which the mark was registered. The decision considers the dominant elements and relevant consumer where the applicant’s mark contained both English words and Chinese characters. For a copy of the decision, see: https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/fct/doc/2024/2024fc1202/2024fc1202.html