{"id":386875,"date":"2010-03-04T00:50:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T05:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/?p=10299"},"modified":"2010-03-04T00:50:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T05:50:14","slug":"usemybank-trademark-opposed-%e2%80%93-cbc-dragons%e2%80%99-den","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/386875","title":{"rendered":"UseMyBank Trademark Opposed? \u2013 CBC Dragons\u2019 Den"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am a big fan of CBC Dragons’ Den<\/a><\/strong> but passive viewing is not my thing. And when the story is interesting, I like to dig deeper and, over the years, I’ve interviewed Dragons, Dragons’ Den entrepreneurs and conducted followup interviews with the pitching entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n

Tonight, after spending sometime (half an hour) of time to research, I was unable to find much external & independent information about UseMyBank<\/a> (a Season 5, episode 6 pitch) to understand and appreciate their claims of profits on TV and their business.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I “naturally” (it is naturally to me) turned to the Canadian Intellectual Property Office<\/a> <\/strong>to do a trademark database search<\/a><\/strong>. (note: the patent search link is on the same CIPO<\/a> page)<\/p>\n

To my surprise, I found that UseMyBank<\/a>’s Trademark application (from an online search<\/a> of “usemybank” or application number 1253705) is currently “opposed” by none other than Bank of Montreal<\/a>. So I naturally wonder if BMO<\/a> is doing any business with UseMyBank while BMO is trying to take down its trademark? How about other members of the big 5 banks?<\/p>\n

Again, since the business name has been “Used in CANADA since December 12, 2002″ (according to the trademark application), and the business has been a success according to the pitch on TV, I am a little surprised for the lack of external & independently verifiable information of it as a business. Any big city Canadian newspapers or magazines available online will help me a lot but I found none.<\/p>\n

May be someone can help me here. I am, to say the least, confused about UseMyBank<\/a> as a business. Can anyone send me links to some external & independent sources of information re UseMyBank<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Note:<\/strong> You can download and read the Trademarks Regulations (current to Feb 2010) here<\/a>. Of interest are rules 35 – 42.<\/p>\n

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Mar 4th, 7:42am Update<\/strong>: Please see followup comments here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Filed under: Business<\/a>, Canada<\/a>, CBC<\/a>, Dragonfly on the wall<\/a>, Dragons’ Den<\/a>, investment<\/a>, trademark<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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