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Heading: professionals /
volume 2
Key Words: trademark, domaine names, canada
Reference: Pierre-Emmanuel
MOYSE, "Display
of a trade-mark on a passive U.S. web-site does not constitute an infringing
use in Canada", Juriscom.net, January 12, 2002
First publication: (2001) 2.11 World Internet Law Report (WILR), 19-21.
BNA International Inc., www.bnai.com
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Display
of a trade-mark on a passive U.S. web-site does not constitute
an infringing use in Canada
By
Pierre-Emmanuel Moyse
LEGER ROBIC RICHARD,
avocats
ROBIC, agents
de brevets et de marques de commerce
www.robic.com
email:
moyse@robic.com
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Summary
On
September 11, 2001, the Court of Appeal of Ontario reversed the Ontario
Superior Court decision rendered June 30, 2000 in the case Pro-C v.
Computer City [7 C.P.R. (4th) 193]. The appeal decision was awaited
with great anticipation. The Court of Appeal reaffirms the law with
respect to the proper meaning of "use" of a trade-mark when
a trade-mark is displayed on a web-site. It clearly asserts the passive/active
distinction in the characterisation of such use: use on a passive Internet
web site is not a use within the meaning of the Canadian Trade-marks
Act and therefore cannot attracts the application of trademark law
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