18 July 2021

1.8 Million Marks and Counting

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.

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”.

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).