Trademarks:  Protecting your identity

Valadares Law Group has a passion for trademarks. We believe that every company, large or small, should protect and enforce its trademark rights. Regardless of a company’s size or budget, we create a plan that allows for the protection of trademark rights.

We implement cost savings programs designed to avoid adoption of marks that cannot be protected, design staged registration programs to register our clients' marks in various countries depending on the manufacturing, sales and economic realities, conduct full registration activities and prepare and file all registration, opposition, litigation and post-registration documents.

Our trademark group has extensive experience assisting clients in:

• Selecting and clearing trademarks in Canada and around the world
• Filing and registering trademarks in Canada and internationally
• Opposition and cancellation proceedings
• Registering and protecting domain names
• Resolving international and domestic trademark conflicts
• Anti-counterfeiting and parallel trade disputes
• Creating internal trademark programs that rank each brand’s importance and documenting its protection profile

Specifically, on behalf of our clients we have:

• Enforced Canadian “made known“ trademark rights of large American restaurant chain
• Assisted in the creation of a worldwide Request For Proposal for trademark legal services for a multinational personal care product company
• Managed the Canadian portfolio of a global cosmetic and personal care company
• Successfully enforced Canadian trademark rights associated with the colour of a power tool on behalf of a European tool manufacturer
• Prevented a U.S. company from infringing trademark rights associated with an on-line gaming brand

Let the Valadares Law Group help you in the selection, protection and enforcement of your trademark rights.