CIPO received 64,597 trademark applications1 in 2024. This post breaks them down2 in terms of filings which either do or do not appoint an agent—for all filings, for Madrid filings and for non-Madrid filings.
Agents are not appointed in a significant number of applications, e.g. pro se filings, some filings by in-house corporate trademark agents and most inbound Madrid Protocol applications (which often do not appoint an agent until a later prosecution stage—if at all).
The following table and chart provide an overview of 2024 filings (click to enlarge either image):
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. Bear in mind that the filing date of an inbound 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 2024 Madrid filings may change depending on when the count is done.↩
2 The breakdown reflects CIPO’s trademark .xml data as of 31-Dec-2024. Note that filings per se are not tracked; rather, current appointments of agents are tracked as of 31-Dec-2024. For example, if an application filed in 2024 initially appointed agent A, and if agent A’s appointment was revoked, with agent B being subsequently appointed in 2024 to continue prosecution of the application, then that application is counted only in respect of the currently appointed agent B.↩
