Exciting times ahead

The message from the parliament of Canada to our profession—which was already reeling from the unexpected news that changes to our Trade-marks Act would include the elimination of all use requirements—was ‘damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead’. Trademark practitioners across Canada scrambled to both lobby the government to reconsider the use issue and explain to clients the implications of the upcoming changes, which were initially supposed to be implemented as early as autumn 2014.