Walmart Canadian Trademark Case

From one of our favorite Canadian workplace bloggers, David Doorey (York Univ.):

I don't know if you are familiar with this case, but there is an interesting and funny case heading to a Quebec court later this month in which Walmart is seeking an injunction to stop the UFCW from using its logos and slogans on a website devoted to critizing Walmart and encouraging employees to join the union.  Not surprisingly, the union is getting some good mileage out of this lawsuit.  Here's my blog entry on the case, which includes a link to Walmart's pleadings. 

And here is a taste of the blog post:

This lawsuit was likely received with great enthusiam at the union’s headquarters, since it attracts way more public attention to their website than they could ever had hoped.  If I was the union, I’d fight this case to the Supreme Court if the injunction were actually to be granted.  Here is the UFCW webpage on the lawsuit, and you can see how the union is putting the lawsuit to good use with “under the threat of censorship” yellow tape across the logos. And check out this very funny little parody.

Read the whole post here.

PS