In this case, Rob Aske, an intellectual property lawyer with law firm, Stewart McKelvey, needs to think through the advice that he should offer a client. He needs to create a strategy to help a client who bought a small business with a portfolio of Canadian trade mark registrations. The client wanted to move into the U.S. market but discovered that a trademark registration existed in the U.S. that potentially blocked its ability to obtain a trademark registration in that country. Visit casenet.ca for more free, open access decision focused video teaching cases from Acadia University.