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. Markify
At a glance
At a glance
Best for
Best for trademark attorneys and brand owners who order clearance reports and watches themselves, a few registers at a time.
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Full Comparison
| Criterion | Canadian Trademarks Database | Markify |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Not stated | From $39 / year For a US Federal watch (USPTO and WIPO designating the US), all classes included. Comprehensive search reports are paid per report, from $89 for any single database and $169 for US Full. Prices exclude VAT and are listed at the same figures in euros, with combo discounts from 5% for two registers up to 30% for 7 to 25. |
| Free trial | Not stated | Free trial on request after creating an account; length not stated |
| 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 | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | API and raw data access to 190 trademark databases, on request |
| Languages | Not stated | Website in English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese and Japanese; goods and services translated into 40 languages |
| Hosting | Web app on ised-isde.canada.ca | Not stated |
| Made in | Canada | Sweden (Stockholm) |
| 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 | 240 trademark databases: 190 country registers plus the 50 US states, with WIPO and Lisbon geographical indications among the international databases and daily data updates. Optional common law sources cover business names, domain names across 1,000+ TLDs, web search, images, social media and about 100 social network usernames. |
| 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 | Word mark similarity search with relevance-ranked results, image search for design and figurative marks by algorithm or with analyst review using Vienna and US design codes, and Boolean search across trademark data fields including goods and services in ProSearch |
| 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 | Comprehensive word searches include up to five classes plus identical results across all classes, each additional class 2.5% more; watches include all classes; goods and services can be keyword-filtered and are translated into 40 languages |
| 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 | Comprehensive availability reports generated within minutes, with identical marks and dead marks in separate tabs, and analyst-driven reports in 2 business days (urgent) or 4 (standard). Image clearance runs by algorithm or with an analyst reviewing the results. |
| Watch and alerts | Not stated | Weekly watch reports by email and online across up to 190 registers, all classes included, plus owner watch, goods and services watch and domain name watch across 1,000+ TLDs. Bulk watching from 50 watches with template automation. |
| 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 | PDF by email, and PDF, Word, RTF, HTML and Excel online, with custom branding, sorting, colour coding and sharing with colleagues inside or outside the company |
| 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 | API and raw data access to 190 trademark databases on request; the vendor asks for the application, the markets and the expected daily API calls and publishes no price or format |
| AI features | No | stated Yes |
| Deployment | Browser-based | Cloud (SaaS) |
| Support | Not stated | Email helpdesk, Phone |
| Onboarding | Documentation and knowledge base | Not stated |
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Key Differences
- Deployment Canadian Trademarks Database Browser-based Markify Cloud (SaaS)
- Made in Canadian Trademarks Database Canada Markify Sweden (Stockholm)
- AI features Canadian Trademarks Database No Markify Yes
- 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 Markify 240 trademark databases: 190 country registers plus the 50 US states, with WIPO and Lisbon geographical indications among the international databases and daily data updates. Optional common law sources cover business names, domain names across 1,000+ TLDs, web search, images, social media and about 100 social network usernames.
- 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 Markify Word mark similarity search with relevance-ranked results, image search for design and figurative marks by algorithm or with analyst review using Vienna and US design codes, and Boolean search across trademark data fields including goods and services in ProSearch
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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
Markify
Strengths
- Watches from $39 a year for the US and $129 a year for 190 registers, all classes included
- Search reports ordered one at a time without a contract, from $89
- Image search that includes common law images from the web and social media
- Reports in PDF, Word, RTF, HTML and Excel, with custom branding
Limitations
- ProSearch, API and analyst prices are not published
- Analyst-reviewed image searches cost several times the algorithm price, for example $910 against $145 for a US design mark
- The image search page states two different surcharges for additional classes
Plans
Pricing
Canadian Trademarks Database
Price on Request
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- US Federal Full watch $39 Per year, excluding VAT. USPTO and WIPO designating the US, all classes, weekly reports.
- Global watch $129 Per year, excluding VAT. 190 registers, weekly reports.
- Any Database Full search $89 Per report, excluding VAT. One trademark database, up to five classes.
- US Full search $169 Per report, excluding VAT. Common law can be added.
- EU Full search $589 Per report, excluding VAT. EU registers plus Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
- ProSearch Not stated Flat-rate screening and research tool, price on request with a free trial.
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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
Markify https://www.markify.com/ · checked against the official source on 2026-11-05
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