05 July 2022

Pre-Assessment vs. Examination

Examination reports have issued on 1,138 applications which have undergone goods / services description pre-assessment (as of 11-Jul-2022).  This does not necessarily imply that CIPO is accelerating examination of pre-assessed applications.

Trademark Pre-assessment Letters

In a 6-Apr-2022 email sent to subscribers to its Canadian Trademark News, CIPO announced “...the use of automated analysis related to goods, services and Nice classification information to help decrease the inventory of applications awaiting examination by the Office1 and improve overall wait times to registration in Canada”.