Industry Canada Work Values

Daily Duties at Industry Canada:

• Reviewed trademarks applications to assess if they complied with the Trade-marks Act, rules, regulations and legal requirements. • Determined the scope of protection claimed by the applicant. • Researched relevant trademarks to compare prior trade-marks to trade-mark claimed in the application. • Analyzed trademarks, evaluated possible problems such as objections that could be raised, and determined if additional information is needed to make a decision. • Drafted quality reports and recommended the application for approval or non-approval. Issued action letters, reporting agency decisions. • Interpreted and applied the Trade-marks Act, its regulations and the jurisprudence by examining application for registration of trade-marks to determine their eligibility, non-eligibility or need for amendment. • Performed legal and trade research and research in all channels of trade in order to ensure that applicants are not granted exclusive rights to descriptive terms which should be open to all traders and to registration of unregisterable matter. • Communicated and built relationships in writing and orally with clients concerning their applications. • Provided advice to the trade-marks industry, public and staff of other government departments on general and specific trade-mark issues and procedures. • Negotiated and exchanged ideas, information and opinion with agents and applicants to formulated trade-marks policies and programs or arrive jointly at decisions, conclusions or solutions. • Persuaded and influenced others in favour of a trade-mark application’s decision, or point of view. • Researched and study Federal Court and Trade-marks Opposition Board decisions having a bearing on trade-marks matters and individual cases. • Conducted thorough screening interviews, evaluated applicants' qualifications for positions throughout Industry Canada.

What they like about Industry Canada:

You give high priority to hiring firms with prestige. Market reputation and prestige of a firm may be determined through on-line research, and conversations with individuals working in your target industry. Note that firms "in the public eye" receive a great deal more critical publicity and attention than those operating with more anonymity. So as you assess your employment opportunities, be sure to seek out the positive aspects of the firm's reputation in addition to noting negative publicity the company may have received.

Tags

Regulatory, Science, Management, French, MS Office

Skills

Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Management, Intellectual Property, MS Office, Fluency in French

These are some of the questions we asked our climbers about their experiences with Industry Canada: