Class 045
Personal & Legal & Social Services
To the Registrar of Trade-marks, Gatineau, Canada, The applicant, Sal Guzzo LL.B., Professional Corporation, Barristers and Solicitors, whose full post office address of its principal office or place of business is 2600 Skymark Avenue, Building 1, Suite 102, Mississauga, Ontario, L4W 5B2, applies for the registration of the trade-mark identified below. The trade-mark is: Sal Guzzo The applicant intends to continue to use the trade-mark in Canada in association with providing personal injury legal services within Ontario since 2007. The trade-mark has been used in Canada by the applicant in association with providing personal injury legal information since 2007. The trade-mark has been used in Canada by the applicant in association with providing personal injury legal research services since 2007. The applicant acknowledges that trade-marks may not be registered if it is nothing more than a name or surname. However, the applicant relies on the exception to this rule. The proposed trade-mark has become a distinctive name such that the words have acquired a secondary meaning in the public mind/realm. Sal Guzzo LL.B., Professional Corporation, Barristers and Solicitors have been providing personal injury legal services in Ontario since 2007 and Sal Guzzo has become synonymous with personal injury law. The applicant is satisfied that it is entitled to use the trade-mark in Canada in association with the services described above.
