Canadian Trademarks Database vs. WIPO Global Brand Database

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• Hosting Canadian Trademarks Database Web app on ised-isde.canada.ca WIPO Global Brand Database Web app at branddb.wipo.int
• 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 WIPO Global Brand Database International trademarks under the Madrid System, appellations of origin and geographical indications under the Lisbon System, emblems under Article 6ter, WHO international nonproprietary names, and trademarks from participating national and regional offices, with a coverage list on the database site. The Madrid collection is updated daily, EUIPO data is retrieved daily, and other national collections update as often as each office sends its data; Peru and Paraguay were added in 2026.
• 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 WIPO Global Brand Database Search by keywords, names, numbers, goods and services and image similarity, or a combination of them. Logo search takes an uploaded JPG, PNG or WebP image with a choice of search strategy, and the separate Vienna Classification Assistant suggests Vienna codes for figurative elements.
• Goods, services and Nice classes Canadian Trademarks Database 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 WIPO Global Brand Database Search by goods and services, plus the separate Global G&S Terms Explorer, which helps choose goods and services terms and their Nice classification in different languages
• Clearance and conflict screening Canadian Trademarks Database 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 WIPO Global Brand Database Results are a search, not a screening: the terms of use state that a result does not imply any legal opinion on likelihood of confusion, the FAQ states that WIPO is not mandated to conduct searches for third parties, and WIPO suggests also searching national and regional registers and consulting a trademark attorney

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