This post breaks down the trademark applications1 CIPO received in 2021 by Applicant country. A separate breakdown by Canadian province is provided for Canadian applicants.
Click the hyperlinks below to jump to a table of interest:
Bear in mind that the filing date of a 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 2021 Madrid filings may change depending on when the count is done. For example, a count of 2021 Madrid filings derived from CIPO’s data as of 07-Feb-2022 will differ from (exceed) a count of 2021 Madrid filings derived from CIPO’s data as of 03-Jan-2022 because the 07-Feb-2022 data will include Madrid cases having 2021 filing dates that were not included in the 03-Jan-2022 data.
Also bear in mind that it can take months for certain applications to pass through the formalization process before filing dates are allocated to them. For example, extension application no. 1816985-01 has a 7-Sep-2021 filing date, but the application’s “Created” and “Formalized” event dates are both 25-Jan-2022. Applications are not included in CIPO’s .xml data, nor do they appear in CIPO’s online trademark database, until CIPO has taken the steps inherent in the “Created” and “Formalized” events. Therefore application no. 1816985-01 did not become public until 31-Jan-2022, notwithstanding its 7-Sep-2021 filing date. (Recall that CIPO refreshes the trademark data weekly, effective Monday of each week. 31-Jan-2022 was the first Monday after 25-Jan-2022.) Accordingly, a count of 2021 trademark filings conducted on the basis of CIPO’s 31-Jan-2022 data will differ from (exceed) a count conducted on the basis of CIPO’s 03-Jan-2022 data, etc.
For example, the second table below indicates that 30,210 non-Madrid filings were made in 2021 by Canadian applicants, but the fourth table indicates that there were 30,240 such filings. The difference is due to the fact that the second table was created from CIPO’s 03-Jan-2022 data, whereas the fourth table was created from CIPO’s 07-Feb-2022 data.
For other posts summarizing CIPO’s 2021 trademark data, see: 2021 Agent Rankings, 2021 Agent vs. no Agent Filings, 2021 Agent Appointment Statistics, 2021 Filings by Type / Class / Category / Status and 2021 Trend Chart Updates.
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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, etc.↩
