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Recommended Reading: "Bona Fide Intent to Use in the United States and Canada"

Here's the second entry in your summer TTABeach-reading package: an article by Daniel R. Bereskin, Q.C., Miles J. Alexander, and Nadine Jacobson, entitled "Bona Fide Intent to Use in the United States and Canada," 100 Trademark Reporter 709 (May-June 2010). [pdf here].The authors review the legal and logical underpinnings of the bona fide intent requirements in the United States and Canada, and then turn their critical attention to the Community Trade Mark (CTM) system:The argument of this essay is that bona fide intent to use should be an essential prerequisite for filing a trademark application in any country or region where protection is sought, and in particular in the European Union (EU) when filing an application for a Community trade mark (CTM)...continue to full post

Full post as published by The TTABlog on June 21, 2010 (boomark / email).