From the Niagara Falls Review:
Steve Alek’s registered trademark of the word Fallsview could be undone by a semicolon, says a Niagara Falls woman with 20 years of experience in trademark law.
“If all of these services (listed on his registration) have not been provided since the date claimed, I would question the validity of the registration,” said Pamela Feldman, who spent 20 years as a trademark agent with the Toronto office of global law firm McCarthy Tetrault before retiring in 2005 and moving to Niagara.
According to the trademark registration filed Sept. 20, Alek claimed to have used the word Fallsview for the following services:
“(1) Furnishing of travel information to Canada and Niagara Falls via the Internet and/or travel related website; hotel services; motel services; restaurant services; sightseeing services, mainly guided tour services” since Jan. 17, 1995.
Pamela Feldman said reading that, it appears as though Alek owns or operates at least one hotel, motel, restaurant and guided tour service.
“It’s the semicolon,” she said. “I take that list to read that he actually owns these types of businesses.”
But Alek doesn’t own a hotel, motel, restaurant or tour company.