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Update: Canadian Keyword Advertising

By Richard P.W. Stobbe

  Is the use of a competitor’s name in keyword advertising considered trade-mark infringement?  The short answer is that in Canada, we still don’t know. The closest decision we have is from a recent lawsuit which deals with competing career colleges in Vancouver. Vancouver Career College (VCC) had an aggressive policy of buying up the keywords of competitors. [...]

Full post as published by Intellectual Property in Canada (ipblog.ca) on February 25, 2011 (boomark / email).