Trademark Online Services – Release Notes
We strive to deliver online services that are up to date, consistent with and reflective of changing legislation, practices and meet our client's needs and wants as much as possible. We aim to implement improvements and fixes to our services to facilitate an efficient and timely online experience.
This page serves to provide information on the releases that have been implemented for each online service. As a result, for each release, you can expect to read the following information: What's New, What's Improved and What's Fixed.
For any additional questions, you can contact us by email at: ic.contact-contact.ic@canada.ca.
Access Canadian Trademarks Database
Access Trademark E-Registration and E-Renewal
Enter a new name on the List of Trademark Agents
Annual Renewal of a Trademark Agent
Trademark E-Filing
There was a release implemented by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office on:
Release updates – August 22, 2019 at 3:00 p.m. (EDT)
What's Improved?
- Amend a previously filed application – The latest e-Revised application, which was filed prior to the coming into force date of , has been converted, so it is available for use in the e-Amend online application.
Canadian Trademarks Database
There was a release implemented by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office on:
Release updates – August 08, 2019 7:00 a.m. (EDT)
What's Improved?
- Wild Card Searches
- Upper and Lower Case Searches
- International Searches
What's Fixed?
- Grid View
- Section 9 Mapping
- Search Spinning Wheel
- Disclaimer Location
More updates
Release updates – June 17, 2019
Transition to Standard ST.96
Transition to Standard ST.96As of , the Trademarks Branch will adopt the World Intellectual Property Office's recommended data Standard ST.96, the XML (eXtensible Markup Language) for the purpose of filing, publishing, processing, and exchanging of information. As well, the ST.96 Standard will be the only accepted format for the purpose of uploading a previously saved application as a new application and the HTML structure will no longer be supported.
To facilitate the adoption of the XML format, CIPO will put in place a HTML to XML format converter. This tool will be available from here as of .
Mapping documents
For your convenience, we are providing you with the mapping documents relating to Standard ST.96.
Please note that these files are provided as is and cannot be provided in an accessible format due to the nature of the content. For assistance, please contact our Client Service Centre.
- XML sample file populated with data (XML document 6 KB)
- Mapping document describes how to map HTML fields to XML elements (Excel document 15 KB)
- HTML sample file that contains hidden data fields (HTM document 81 KB)
- XML schema compliance with ST.96 standard (ZIP file 83 KB)
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