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Layne Christensen

News Reporter
layne@usnews.com

THE City of North
Vancouver is entertain-
ing the idea of a Lower
Lonsdale arts communi-

ty.

‘Phe Burrard band wants a
cultural interpretive centre at
Cates Park. The Squamish
Nation is considering building,
its own cultural centre near the
Mosquito Creek marina.

Blueridge and Seymour
area residents envision an arts
campus off Mt. Seymour
Parkway.

West Van arts activist
Maggie Pappas is leading the
fight for a multi-million dollar
arts centre in Amblcside.

Presentation House Gallery
is cramped for space. And the
Artists For Kids Trust is sitting
on a collection of Canadian art
worth three-quarters of a mil-

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ROBIN Ingliss (left) of North Vancouver Museum and Archives and marine technology pioneer Phil Nuytten are hoping to gain tte city’s
support to turn the machine shop at Versatile shipyards into a waterfront museum. Theirs is just one cf many proposals for the site.

Michael Becker

News Editor
michael@nsnews.com

CANADA Post Corp. is taking a
North Shore company to 3.C.
Supreme Court over the alleged
infringement of trademark rights.

The suit coincides with action on other
Canada Post in an attempt to mitigate i
Internet e-mail and other electronic transaction:
North Vancouver-based CyPost Corporation is
the developer of a software product that encrypts
clectroni¢ communications — voice and document
— for private use on the Internet and other com-

Canada Post sues NV
company over trademark

puter networks.
In April, EPost Innovations Inc., a subsidiary of
eda letter from patent and trademark
legal firm Smart & Biggar. The company was writ-
ing on behalf of its client, Canada Post.

According to the letter, Canada Post owns a
number of trademarks and official marks that incor-
porate the word “post” in them.

Among, those claimed by Canada Post are
Cyberpost and Cyberposte.

Smart & Biggar lawyer Michael Manson claimed
in the letter that the North Vancouver company's

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use of the trade names Epost and CyPost constitut-
cd “an infringement of Canada Post's trademark

The letter went on co demand that Epost imme-
diately change its corporate names “to usc of
the word ‘post’...” and that the company cancel its
trademark registrations for EPost and CyPost.

Smart & Biggar also advised that CyPost’s
Internet domain name cypost.com contributes to
leading the general public to assume that CyPost “is
associated with Canada Post...”

statement of claim against EPost was filed on
tanada Post in B.C. Supreme Court in

Canada Post has generally laid claim to over 80

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