Why do you need a trade-mark lawyer? Your trade-mark is one of the key identifiers of your business and your brand. It tells customers that a product or service comes from your company and that they can trust its quality.
Infringement of your trade-mark can cause harm to your company’s reputation. Our lawyers can help you guard against the damaging effects of infringement and ensure that your trade-mark and other intellectual property rights are protected. We can assist you with everything from advice on trade-mark strategies to registration and renewal of trade-marks and litigation in situations where there has been unauthorized use of your trade-mark.
We are registered Canadian trade-mark agents and we are also authorized to register trade-marks in the United States.
A trade-mark is a unique sign indicating the origin of a product or service. A trade-mark can consist of a logo, one or multiple words, letters and numbers, or design, with the intended use being to distinguish your company’s products or services from another company’s. Even packaging and shape can be used as trade-marks. These are called “distinguishing guise” trade-marks and they can help protect the unique shape of your product or packaging.
In Canada, we use a common law system under which trade-marks do not have to be registered. The use of a trade-mark constitutes ownership, if the owner can prove that the trade-mark is recognized by the general public.
While registration is not necessary, it can make your trade-mark more secure and help you with registration in another country.
Trade-mark registration services include legal fees for filing the application, government application fees, and a corporate search fee. Additional services are billed at an hourly rate. For more details, see our rates page.
While registration is not mandatory, common law protections are generally considered to be weaker than the rights assigned through registration. Our trade-mark lawyers will discuss with you the benefits of registration, which include: ability to enforce trade-mark throughout Canada; ability to take infringement cases to the courts; priority when seeking registration outside Canada.
As experienced intellectual property (IP) lawyers, the team at Heydary Hamilton will work with your business to devise an effective strategy for safeguarding your trade-mark and other IP.
Our trade-mark services include: advice on branding and trade-marks; trade-mark searches; writing and filing applications for trade-mark in Canada and abroad; renewal of your trade-mark; licensing and transfer of ownership; defence against infringement.
Our team includes patent lawyers who can assist you with patentability searches and preparing and filing patent applications.
Our business and entertainment law divisions also provide services to protect the copyright of your IP assets.
Our trade-mark lawyers will provide all of the advice and legal services you need to ensure your trade-mark—one of the most important assets of your company—is protected. Contact our head office in Toronto at 416-972-9001 today to learn more.
439 University Ave
Suite 1200
Toronto, ON
M5G 1Y8
Canada
Tel: (416) 972-9001
Fax: (416) 972-9940
Email: info@heydary.com
Toll Free: 1 (866) HEYDARY
The closest TTC subway station is St. Patrick Station. We are located on the south-east corner of the University Ave. & Dundas St. intersection.
Parking is availble behind the office building on Centre Ave.
