IPLC Faculty Director Professor Jeremy Sheff today released an open-access dataset of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office’s trademark registry dating back to 1865. As described in the dataset release:
This individual-application-level dataset includes records of all applications for registered trademarks in Canada since approximately 1980, and of many preserved applications and registrations dating back to the beginning of Canada’s trademark registry in 1865, totaling over 1.6 million application records. It includes comprehensive bibliographic and lifecycle data; trademark characteristics; goods and services claims; identification of applicants, attorneys, and other interested parties (including address data); detailed prosecution history event data; and data on application, registration, and use claims in countries other than Canada. The dataset has been constructed from public records made available by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office. Both the dataset and the code used to build and analyze it are presented for public use on open-access terms.
The new dataset, as well as the underlying code used to construct it, is available free of charge via Zenodo.
