Canadian Industrial Designs Database: Help

The Canadian Industrial Designs Database includes all industrial designs registered.

This database is updated every Thursday.

This help file contains the following sections:

• Help from the Client Service Centre
• Other information sources
• Searching tips
  • Searching with English and French Criteria
  • Status search option
  • Basic Search Option
  • Boolean search
  • Upper/lower case letters, special characters, and accents
  • Truncation and wildcard characters
  • Add classification
  • Registration date
  • Display options
  • Sort documents
  • Number of documents returned
  • Number of documents per page
  • Execute search
  • Search results
• Description of searchable and other information fields
  • Description of searchable fields
    • Application number
    • Classification code
    • Classification text
    • Client reference number
    • Court order number
    • Current owner
    • Date of registration
    • Description
    • Interested parties
    • Registration Number
    • Title
  • Description of other information fields
    • Agent
    • Applicant(s) as filed
    • Assignee
    • Assignment
    • Merger
    • Licence
    • Change of name
    • Security agreement
    • Assignment number
    • Assignor
    • Convention priority claim
    • Divisional application
    • Filing date
    • International deposit
    • Licensee
    • Licensor
    • Maintenance fee paid
    • Other classes searched
    • Other interested parties
    • Parent application
    • References considered
    • Registered proprietor
    • Representative for service
    • Status
    • Term of protection

Help from the Client Service Centre

For questions or assistance related to the Canadian Industrial Designs Database, please contact us.

Other information sources

Additional industrial design information is available on the Industrial Designs main page, in particular the Guide to Industrial Designs and the Industrial Design Act.