Before filing an application it is advisable to conduct pre-filing trademark clearance searches to assess the availability of the trademark against the Canadian Trademarks Register and against several common-law resources like the Federal and provincial company names and provincial business names registers.
Pre-filing trademark clearance searches can provide valuable insight as to the likelihood of success for obtaining a registration and possibly determine if there is a prior user of the same or substantially the same trademark that has not obtained a registration.
Time and money can be saved if the search reveals a prior trademark that will likely be an obstacle to registration or that could be enforced to prevent you for using the proposed trademark.
Yates IP offers three levels of clearance searching for trademarks that consist merely of words and two levels of searching for trade-marks that consist of design elements.
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| To order a clearance search, send us an email with your instructions and include following: |
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| Send your search instructions by email or call +1 (613) 482-1506 with any questions you have |