The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) process the Trademark applications according to the steps below.
- Application is filed
- On payment of Government fee an application No. is alloted to your application
- If application is correctly filed CIPO will send an acknowledgement email at your email address
- Formalities include the submission and confirmation of application submisison
- Examination
- Advertising
- Opposition
- Allowance
- Registration
Registration of grants the exclusive right to use the mark across Canada for 15 years. The registration is renewable every 15 years after that.
Intellectual Property Logium provides following services to protect Trademarks in Canada through CIPO:
- Trademark Search
- Class advise
- Applying and Filing the Trademark
- Dealing with Prosecution and Examination process
- Publications issues
- Oppositions – Prosecution and Defenses
- Allowances and Registrations
- Abandonment and Revivals
- Correspondence with the Office of the Registrar of the Trademark CIPO
- Expungement of a trademark registration
- Trademark Renewals
- Transfer
- Assignment and Licenses
