The Canadian Trademark Blog reports that new Trade-marks Act reforms came into effect on January 1st that block Canadian wine makers from using terms such as Burgundy and Bourgogne.
Canadian Trademark Act Reforms Come Into Force
One Comment
Recent Posts
Addressing the AI Policy Challenge: My Appearance before the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications 
Lawful Access Heads to Committee: The Opposition Found Its Voice, the Government Never Found Its Defence 
Is Data De-Identification Dead?: Why the AI Privacy Risk Isn’t What It Learns, But What It Figures Out 
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 265: Jason Millar on Claude Mythos, Project Glasswing, and the Governance Crisis in Frontier AI 
A Standard That Doesn’t Exist: Parliamentary Secretary for Justice Offers Misleading Defence of Bill C-22’s Lower Threshold for Subscriber Information
Are the terms “Red” and “White” next?
I am amazed at how fast Canada is willing to bend over for the shaft. Not just with wine, but taking generic words left, right and centre and handing them off as trademarks.