23 March 2022

Registrability Recognized under the Trademarks Act

In its online database, CIPO annotates certain marks “Registrability Recognized under the Trademarks Act”.  The annotations can’t be found by searching the database; they can only be found by reviewing each weekly issue of the Trademarks Journal or by working with CIPO’s trademark .xml data.

11 March 2022

Trademark Agent Registration Numbers

Now that the College has given you a CPATA Number, your CIPO-allocated trademark agent registration number is irrelevant, right?  Wrong!