Practice Notice - Archive: New Administrative Policy - Punctuation Marks, Publication Date: 1992-12-30

New Administrative Policy - Punctuation Marks

Publication Date: 1992-12-30

As a matter of administrative policy, the Trade-mark Examination Branch will no longer consider that an application for the registration of a word or words is in a special form only because it includes French or English punctuation. The French or English punctuation marks recognized are the following:

the period, the question mark, the exclamation mark, the comma, the semicolon, the colon, the ellipsis, the parentheses, the brackets, the quotation marks, the single quotation marks, the inverted commas, the dash, the asterisk, the diagonal and the underscore

This practice notice should not be construed as legal advice on the application of Section 30(h)of the Trade-marks Act.