2024 Agent Appointment Statistics

CIPO received 64,597 trademark applications¹ in 2024.  This post provides an agent-focused statistical summary² of those filings.

2024 Trend Chart Updates

Having closed the books on 2024, we can update some trend charts with the 2024 data.

2024 Filings by Type / Class / Category / Status

This post provides a mark type / class / category / status breakdown of the 64,597 trademark applications¹ CIPO received in 2024.

2024 Agent vs. no Agent Filings

CIPO received 64,597 trademark applications¹ in 2024.  This post breaks them down² in terms of filings which either do or do not appoint an agent—for all filings, for Madrid filings and for non-Madrid filings.

2024 Agent Rankings

CIPO received 64,597 trademark applications¹ in 2024.  This post ranks them as of 31-Dec-2024 in terms of the number of appointments per agent on behalf of: (1) all applicants, (2) Canadian resident applicants and (3) non-Canadian resident applicants.

The tables below are derived from the same dataset².  The only difference is in the sort (i.e. rank) order, as highlighted in each table’s header.  Table 1 ranks appointments on behalf of all applicants; Table 2 ranks appointments on behalf of Canadian resident applicants; Table 3 ranks appointments on behalf of non-Canadian resident applicants.  Each table lists the Top 50 ranked agents out of the 509 agents (or firms) appointed in at least one application as of 31-Dec-2024. Click any table to enlarge it.

If an application appoints an agent CIPO associates the agent’s (or firm’s) trademark agent registration number with the application³.  The former Ridout & Maybee firm and the former Bereskin & Parr firm are now part of the IPH network and operate under the Smart & Biggar name.  However those former firms’ trademark agent registration numbers are still in use—this explains why the tables have multiple entries for Smart & Biggar (Ottawa) and Smart & Biggar (Toronto). 

For completeness and to provide perspective, the tables include—but do not rank—filings which do not appoint an agent (as of 31-Dec-2024).

1 This includes all types of applications handled by CIPO’s Trademarks Branch, e.g. trademarks, certification marks, official / prohibited (i.e. Section 9) marks, geographical indications, plant variety denominations, inbound Madrid Protocol applications, etc.  Bear in mind that the filing date of an inbound Madrid Protocol application is deemed to be the international registration date of the corresponding Madrid registration; and that it can take weeks or months for a Madrid application to arrive at CIPO.  Accordingly, a count of 2024 Madrid filings may change depending on when the count is done.^↩

2 The dataset reflects CIPO’s trademark .xml data as of 31-Dec-2024. Note that filings per se are not tracked; rather, current appointments of agents are tracked as of 31-Dec-2024. For example, if an application filed in 2024 initially appointed agent A, and if agent A’s appointment was revoked, with agent B being subsequently appointed in 2024 to continue prosecution of the application, then that application is counted only in respect of the currently appointed agent B.^↩

3 See Trademark Agent Registration Numbers for an explanation of those numbers in the context of both individual trademark agents and firms having one or more trademark agents.^↩

 

Catalog of Cancellation Events

This post catalogs the 57 cancellation events CIPO has allocated as of 4 June 2024.

Catalog of Opposition Events

This post catalogs the 177 opposition events CIPO has allocated as of 4 June 2024.

Catalog of Prosecution Events

This post catalogs the 173 prosecution events CIPO has allocated as of 28 May 2024.

The College’s Agent Roster as of 07-May-2024

This post summarizes Canadian patent and trademark agent licence details as of 07-May-2024.

2023 Agent Appointment Statistics

CIPO received 67,000 trademark applications¹ in 2023.  This post provides an agent-focused statistical summary² of those filings.

2023 Trend Chart Updates

Having closed the books on 2023, we can update some trend charts with the 2023 data.

2023 Filings by Type / Class / Category / Status

This post provides a mark type / class / category / status breakdown of the 67,000 trademark applications¹ CIPO received in 2023.

2023 Agent vs. no Agent Filings

CIPO received 67,000 trademark applications¹ in 2023.  This post breaks them down² in terms of filings which either do or do not appoint an agent—for all filings, Madrid filings and non-Madrid filings respectively.

2023 Agent Rankings

CIPO received 67,000 trademark applications¹ in 2023.  This post ranks them as of 31-Dec-2023 in terms of the number of appointments per agent on behalf of: (1) all applicants, (2) Canadian resident applicants and (3) non-Canadian resident applicants.

CIPO’s Oldest Unexamined Trademark Applications

183,189 Canadian trademark applications are unexamined¹ as of 01-Aug-2023².  Over 12,000 of them were filed more than four years ago.  Over 8,900 of them were filed before coming into force (CIF) of the 17 June 2019 amendments to the Trademarks Act, RSC 1985 c. T-13.  84 of them were filed in March of 2019—over four years and four months ago.