04 August 2023

CIPO’s Oldest Unexamined Trademark Applications

183,189 Canadian trademark applications are unexamined1 as of 01-Aug-20232.  Over 12,000 of them were filed more than four years ago.  Over 8,900 of them were filed before coming into force (CIF) of the 17 June 2019 amendments to the Trademarks Act, RSC 1985 c. T-13.  84 of them were filed in March of 2019—over four years and four months ago.