CIPO’s trademark data update for the week ending 12-July-2021 increased the number of marks on the Canadian trademarks register to 1,800,083.
multi-dimensional visualization and analysis of Canadian trademark data
18 July 2021
CIPO’s trademark data update for the week ending 12-July-2021 increased the number of marks on the Canadian trademarks register to 1,800,083.14 July 2021
The Annual Opposition Rate
As a follow-up to Counting Opposition Cases, this post presents some charts showing opposition activity over the past 25 years.
08 July 2021
Tracking Expedited Examination
CIPO does not update its trademark .xml data to flag instances in which the examination process is informally expedited. However the data can be mined to detect such instances, e.g. filing-to-examination in 7 days; filing-to-approval in 17 days; as in the examples below.
CIPO does not update its trademark .xml data to flag instances in which the examination process is informally expedited. However the data can be mined to detect such instances, e.g. filing-to-examination in 7 days; filing-to-approval in 17 days; as in the examples below.
05 July 2021
Counting Opposition Cases
How many opposition cases has CIPO dealt with over the years? The answer depends on the way in which you count oppositions and also depends on what qualifies as an “opposition”.
How many opposition cases has CIPO dealt with over the years? The answer depends on the way in which you count oppositions and also depends on what qualifies as an “opposition”.
01 July 2021
The Perils of Popularity
The Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys has published a brief article titled “The Perils of Popularity” in which I discuss CIPO’s backlog of unexamined trademark applications. See page 21 of the July/August 2021 issue of CITMA Review (here).
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