Avery Lee

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About Avery Lee

I help business owners obtain exclusive rights to their trademarks. I also help other lawyers in need of a go-to trademark or IP lawyer for advice in a relatively niche area of law. Why file a trademark application sooner rather than later? • Exclusive Rights: Merely obtaining a corporate name or registering business name does not give you exclusive “trademark” rights to your name. • Cost of Delaying: If someone else files an application before you do for a similar trademark, even if you used your trademark first or around the same time, it could cost you and years of headache in court to get back your rights to your trademark or be forced to rebrand. • Best Practice: The most successful businesses tend to file new applications before they even launch a new product or service associated with their trademarks. • Trademark Squatters: The longer you are in business without any trademark applications for the names of your businesses or services, the more incentive there is for others to take advantage of the name value you built by filing trademark applications or domain names for those names before you do and even extorting you for money. • Peace of Mind: Once your application is filed, your place in line is secured, and anyone else who files a similar trademark application after you will be rejected by the government. You don’t have to do it yourself. If you want to learn more or just want to connect, feel free to send me a DM or an email at: aclee@marks-clerk.ca