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ARTICLE · 09 APRIL 2012

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The Canadian Intellectual Property office ("CIPO") has just announced that sound marks will now be allowed in Canada.

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The Canadian Intellectual Property office ("CIPO") has just announced that sound marks will now be allowed in Canada. This comes on the heels of a Federal Court order instructing CIPO to approve for advertisement the sound mark application filed by MGM for the roaring lion sound. The Federal Court specified that the application should be approved as soon as the applicant provided CIPO with the actual sound mark in .mp3, or other agreeable electronic format.

CIPO has previously rejected sound mark applications because they could not be properly graphically represented, and also because it was thought that trade-marks should be seen, not just heard, in order to function as marks. Canada now joins the United States, the UK, the European Union (Community Trademarks) and various other countries in allowing sound marks.

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