Best for
Best for applicants and practitioners who want to search the Canadian trademarks register themselves before filing with CIPO.
Trademark Search & Monitoring Comparison
Canadian Trademarks Database vs. DPMAregister
At a glance
At a glance
Best for
Best for applicants and owners of German trade marks who want to search the official register and watch it for new filings themselves.
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Full Comparison
| Criterion | Canadian Trademarks Database | DPMAregister |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Not stated | Free of charge The DPMA states that DPMAregister and the DPMAkurier alerts can be used free of charge; the DPMA connectPlus interface is supplied under an agreement against payment of the marginal cost of providing the data. |
| 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 | Configurable result lists that can be organised and downloaded, and register entries that print or download as a complete register extract |
| API | Not stated | DPMA connectPlus, an automated interface to the register and publication data, supplied under an agreement |
| Languages | Not stated | English and German |
| Hosting | Web app on ised-isde.canada.ca | Web app at register.dpma.de |
| Made in | Canada | Germany |
| 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 | German trade marks filed since 1 January 1998, registered German marks since October 1894 insofar as they were not deleted before 1 January 1995, an excerpt of rejected and withdrawn German marks, EU trade marks from the EUIPO, and WIPO international registrations where Germany or the EU is designated. The DPMA does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the EU and international data and points to the EUIPO and WIPO databases for a full search |
| 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 | Basic, advanced and expert searches; the expert search queries register fields such as mark, type of mark, proprietor, classes, goods and services, colours and dates with comparison and proximity operators and wildcards, and figurative elements are searchable by Vienna Classification. The DPMA states that a similarity search is not possible |
| 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 | Classes and goods and services are search fields of their own, with a link to the internationally harmonised classification of goods and services |
| 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 | A register search and not a clearance opinion: the DPMA does not check during the application procedure whether identical or similar marks are already registered, refers to commercial providers for similarity searches, and names patent information centres that search on your behalf for a fee |
| Watch and alerts | Not stated | DPMAkurier sends automated e-mails daily, weekly or monthly on new publications and register changes, monitoring by file or publication number, by name, by class, by name and class, or user-defined; registration is needed before first use, the number of monitoring searches is not limited, and the DPMA states it can be used free of charge |
| 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 | Result lists can be configured, organised and downloaded, a register entry prints or downloads as a complete register extract, and issues of the Markenblatt trade mark journal from 1950 onwards can be downloaded |
| 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 | DPMA connectPlus gives automated online access to the register and publication data with the query options of the expert search, plus weekly data packages for trade marks, usually on Fridays; data is supplied on the basis of an agreement against payment of the marginal cost of providing it |
| Deployment | Browser-based | Browser-based |
| Support | Not stated | Phone |
| Onboarding | Documentation and knowledge base | more entries Documentation and knowledge base, Live online demos and webinars, On-site training |
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Key Differences
- Hosting Canadian Trademarks Database Web app on ised-isde.canada.ca DPMAregister Web app at register.dpma.de
- Made in Canadian Trademarks Database Canada DPMAregister Germany
- Output Canadian Trademarks Database 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 DPMAregister Configurable result lists that can be organised and downloaded, and register entries that print or download as a complete register extract
- Registers and countries covered Canadian Trademarks Database 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 DPMAregister German trade marks filed since 1 January 1998, registered German marks since October 1894 insofar as they were not deleted before 1 January 1995, an excerpt of rejected and withdrawn German marks, EU trade marks from the EUIPO, and WIPO international registrations where Germany or the EU is designated. The DPMA does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the EU and international data and points to the EUIPO and WIPO databases for a full search
- Word, phonetic and image search Canadian Trademarks Database 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 DPMAregister Basic, advanced and expert searches; the expert search queries register fields such as mark, type of mark, proprietor, classes, goods and services, colours and dates with comparison and proximity operators and wildcards, and figurative elements are searchable by Vienna Classification. The DPMA states that a similarity search is not possible
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The trade-offs
Strengths and Limitations
Canadian Trademarks Database
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
DPMAregister
Strengths
- Covers EU trade marks and international registrations protected in Germany as well as German marks
- Watch alerts by name, class or file number, sent daily, weekly or monthly
- Expert search with proximity operators and Vienna Classification codes
- Telephone hotline for search questions and online-assisted searches with DPMA experts
Limitations
- No similarity search, as the DPMA itself notes
- The DPMA does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the EU and international data
- Covers marks with protection in Germany only
Plans
Pricing
Canadian Trademarks Database
Price on Request
Visit siteDPMAregister
- DPMAregister search Free of charge Online search of the official register and publication data, from the beginner's search to the expert search.
- DPMAkurier alerts Free of charge Alert e-mails on new publications and register changes; registration needed before first use.
- DPMA connectPlus Not stated Automated interface to the register data, supplied under an agreement against payment of the marginal cost of providing the data.
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DPMAregister
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Where this comes from
Where this comes from
Canadian Trademarks Database https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/canadian-intellectual-property-office/en/trademarks/introduction-canadian-trademarks-database · checked against the official source on 2026-11-10
DPMAregister https://www.dpma.de/english/search/dpmaregister/index.html · checked against the official source on 2026-11-10
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