Canada Cooperatives Regulations

9 A cooperative name is confusing with

• (a) a trade-mark if the use of both the cooperative name and the trade-mark is likely to lead to the inference that the business carried on or intended to be carried on under the cooperative name and the business connected with the trade-mark are one business, whether or not the nature of the business of each is generally the same; or

• (b) a trade-name if the use of both names is likely to lead to the inference that the business carried on or intended to be carried on under the cooperative name and the business carried on under the trade-name are one business, whether or not the nature of the business of each is generally the same.