The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) has recently embarked on improving its services. The Trademarks Office and Trademarks Opposition Board launched a new online service called the Trademark Document Retrieval Service (TDRS) and will be sending Office correspondence electronically. Previously, the CIPO has sent correspondence by mail that takes weeks before it is received by applicants and/or agents. With the switch to electronic correspondence, the processing of trademark applications will become faster and the instances of lost mail/correspondence will be avoided. The TDRS is a more stable and performant cloud infrastructure. It is similar to the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Status & Document Retrieval (TSDR). The CIPO’s TDRS will now allow trademark documents to be viewed online in addition to the public records and details of Canadian trademarks. As an example, you may view this trademark, filed in June 2024 and already registered in October 2024 (after we filed a petition to expedite registration):

You simply need to click “Documents” to see the trademark documents made available online to the public. With these changes, drastic improvements in CIPO’s trademark services are expected.