Canadian Trademarks Database

CIPO's own search of active and many inactive Canadian trademarks, with Boolean, wildcard and Vienna code searches.

Output: Result lists of up to 5,000 trademarks in list or grid view, a CSV export of up to 5,000 rows, and trademark details pages that print or save as PDF
Hosting: Web app on ised-isde.canada.ca
Made in: Canada

Overview

The Canadian Trademarks Database is the trademark search of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), part of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. It holds the marks applied for or registered in Canada, including international registrations, and CIPO describes it as intended for use by the wide public. It runs as a web search on the Government of Canada site, and for larger volumes CIPO offers researcher datasets and bulk data separately.

Our take

Pick it if you plan to file in Canada and want to look at the register yourself first, and search phonetic equivalents, synonyms and English or French translations of your mark as well, which is what CIPO recommends when checking for confusion. It answers for Canada only, and CIPO says business decisions should not rest on this search alone, so if you need a thorough search or someone to read the results, it points you to a trademark agent instead.

Key Facts

Category	Trademark Search & Monitoring
Output	Result lists of up to 5,000 trademarks in list or grid view, a CSV export of up to 5,000 rows, and trademark details pages that print or save as PDF
Hosting	Web app on ised-isde.canada.ca
Made in	Canada

Features

Registers and countries covered: All active and many inactive marks applied for or registered under the current Trademarks Act or former trademark legislation, including all marks cancelled, expunged, abandoned or refused after 1979 and some before; national and international (Madrid Protocol) filings can be shown separately. The database also holds section 9 prohibited and official marks, certification marks, geographical indications and plant breeders' rights denominations
Word, phonetic and image search: Basic and advanced searches over 21 fields, with up to 5 criteria combined by AND, OR and NOT, wildcards for one or several characters and quotation marks for exact sequences; filters by category, by type of mark (word, design, sound, colour, 3D, scent, motion and other non-traditional types) and by status group, and figurative searches by Vienna code. The search ignores case and accents
Goods, services and Nice classes: Nice classification is a search field, with the 45 classes plus class 0 for goods or services not classed, and goods and services can also be searched as text
Clearance and conflict screening: A search of the register and not a clearance opinion: CIPO recommends also searching phonetic equivalents, synonyms and translations into English or French, and consulting a trademark agent or an experienced trademark searcher when a thorough search or an interpretation of the results is required
Reports and exports: Results export as a CSV file of up to 5,000 rows and print from the browser; each trademark's details page can be printed, saved as PDF or shared, and links to its Trademarks Office and Trademarks Opposition Board documents in the Trademarks Document Retrieval Service
Integrations and API: CIPO publishes trademarks researcher datasets as CSV and TXT tables with quarterly updates, trademark records as individual XML files paired with their images, and bulk data that can be ordered. The search itself is not intended for bulk downloads, and CIPO says clients generating 1,000 or more daily accesses may be denied access

Integrations

Integrations coming soon.

Deployment and Support

Deployment: Browser-based
Onboarding: Documentation and knowledge base

Pros and Cons

Strengths

Run by CIPO, with the database updated every Wednesday
Includes non-traditional marks such as sound, scent, hologram and motion since June 2019
Result sets of up to 5,000 rows export as CSV
Researcher datasets and XML records for analysis outside the search

Limitations

Covers the Canadian register only; other countries need other databases
The help pages describe no phonetic or similarity search mode, so variants have to be entered one by one
The official pages describe no watch or email alerts for new filings
CIPO does not warrant the accuracy of the data, and recent changes may not be included

Pricing

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