{"id":2222,"date":"2007-10-27T10:38:57","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T14:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/27\/ex-trademark-agent-questions-legal-claim-to-name\/"},"modified":"2007-10-27T10:38:57","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T14:38:57","slug":"ex-trademark-agent-questions-legal-claim-to-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/27\/ex-trademark-agent-questions-legal-claim-to-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-trademark agent questions legal claim to name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?1093\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Steve Alek&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>According to the trademark registration filed Sept. 20, Alek claimed to have used the word Fallsview for the following services:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(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&#8221; since Jan. 17, 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Pamela Feldman said reading that, it appears as though Alek owns or operates at least one hotel, motel, restaurant and guided tour service.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the semicolon,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I take that list to read that he actually owns these types of businesses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Alek doesn&#8217;t own a hotel, motel, restaurant or tour company.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Steve Alek&#8217;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. &#8220;If all of these services (listed on his registration) have not been provided since the date claimed, I would question the validity of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}