Canada Trademark and Trade Name Pre-Search

This is a free search that we offer for the CIPO trademarks database and provincial corporate and business name registrations for 9 of the 10 provinces. You must do the Quebec search yourself. I call it a pre-search because it definitely should not be relied upon as the only search before an application. But it can give you an idea if there are any knock-out matches.

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CANADA: The Canadian government through CIPO (the Canadian Intellectual Property Office) maintains the on line Canadian Trademark Registry.
United States: Trademarks are basically national in scope, so a registered trademark in the U.S. is not an obstacle to a Canadian trademark per se. However, given our increasingly integrated economies, it’s a good idea to search U.S. Trademark Registry as well.
Search Engines: A trademark does not have to be registered in order to be valid. These are often called common-law trademarks, and they can be a serious problem. Therefore, you should search for unregistered trademarks as well. Many people use search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc.

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