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加拿大知识产权局商标服务标准更新

麦仕奇知识产权

2024-03-18

作者

Avery Lee

(Associate)

麦仕奇多伦多办公室

译者

阳威 Frank Yang

(Senior Associate)

麦仕奇北京办公室

加拿大知识产权局商标服务标准更新

Updates to CIPO Trademark

Service Standards

加拿大知识产权局(CIPO)最近修改了该部门的商标服务标准*1，其中多项服务标准将自2024年1月1日予以更新。

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) recently modified its Trademark Service Standards*1 to update various service standards as of January 1, 2024.

*1 https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/canadian-intellectual-property-office/en/corporate-information/performance-targets/client-service-standards#Trademarks_Branch

值得注意的是，如下表所示，CIPO通过澄清和缩短从提交商标申请到发出第一份官方意见（批准注册或第一份审查报告）所需时间来努力改善其服务标准。在这方面，CIPO过去的商标服务标准*2仅就提交商标申请和收到第一份提交通知之间所需时间设定了一项服务标准。就未使用CIPO预先核准的商品及服务项目的申请，申请人过去要面对很大的不确定，甚至需要等待五年之久才能收到第一份官方意见。但修改后的服务标准目前仅适用于在2024年1月1日及其以后提交的商标申请。

Notably, CIPO has made an effort to improve its service standards by clarifying and reducing the amount of time from filing a trademark application to the issuance of a first action (approval or first report), as reproduced in the table below. In this regard, CIPO’s previous trademark service standards*2 only set a service standard for the amount of time between filing a trademark application and receiving a filing notice. Applicants were left with uncertainty and with some waiting up to 5 years to receive a first action for applications filed without using CIPO’s pre-approved list of goods and services. The revised service standards only apply to applications filed on or after January 1, 2024.

*2 https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/canadian-intellectual-property-office/en/corporate-information/performance-targets/cipo-service-standards-effect-04012023-12312023#Trademarks_Branch

商标服务标准的一些最值得注意的更新列于下表之中：

The most notable updates to trademark service standards are set out in the table below:

服务项目 Service	自2024年1月1日执行的新标准 New Standard as of January 1, 2024
请求对标记、徽章、标徽、标识、或宗室纹章给予公告 Request for giving public notice for a badge, crest, emblem, mark or armorial bearing	CIPO将在收到符合要求的申请以及规费付款后十二个月内完成第一轮官方审查（在商标公告上或第一份审查报告上公告禁止注册的商标） CIPO will complete a first action (public notice of the prohibited mark in the Trademarks Journal or first report) within 12 months upon receipt of a compliant request and payment of the prescribed fee.
在线商标注册申请 Application for the registration of a trademark – Online	对使用预先核准的商品和服务清单提出的国内电子申请，CIPO将自其提交日以及规费付款日起十八个月内发出第一份官方意见（批准或第一份审查报告） CIPO will send a first action (approval or first report) within 18 months from the filing date of a domestic electronic application that is filed using the pre-approved list of goods and services and payment of the prescribed fee. 对未使用预先核准的商品和服务清单提出的国内电子申请，CIPO将自其提交日以及规费付款日起二十八个月内发出第一份官方意见（批准或第一份审查报告） CIPO will send a first action (approval or first report) within 28 months from the filing date of a domestic electronic application that is filed without using the pre-approved list of goods and services and payment of the prescribed fee.
扩展商标注册的商品或服务项目的申请 Application to extend the statement of goods or services of a trademark registration	对纸质申请，CIPO将在申请提交日以及规费付款后的二十八个月内发出第一份官方意见（批准或第一份审查报告） CIPO will send a first action (approval or first report) within 28 months from the filing date of a paper application and payment of the prescribed fee.

CIPO的规费减免

Fee Remissions at CIPO

修改后的服务标准有一个重要之处在于当服务被认为没有达标时，CIPO会被要求（根据费用服务法案）减免一部分规费。但是依据费用服务法案应履行的减免仅适用于在2021年4月1日及其之后提交的服务项目。如上已述，任何在2024年1月1日前提交的申请，均不能受益于修改的服务标准，如CIPO未达到服务标准，也不能获得相应的费用减免。

The revised service standards are important as CIPO is required to remit a portion of a fee (pursuant to the Fee Services Act), also known as a remission when a service standard is determined not to have been met and a remission is deemed warranted. However, remissions due under the Fee Services Act are only applicable to services requested on or after April 1, 2021. As noted above, any applications filed before January 1, 2024, will not benefit from the revised service standards and corresponding fee remissions in the event CIPO fails to meet those standards.

减免的费用数额取决于服务未达标的程度。如果服务标准未达标低于或等于50%，则CIPO将减免25%的已付费用。如超过50%服务标准未达到，CIPO将减免已付费用的50%。另外，CIPO还须在接下来的财务年度的7月1日之前完成对该部分已付费用的减免。

The amount to be remitted will depend on the degree to which the service standard was not met. CIPO will remit 25% of the fee paid if an eligible service standard is missed by 50% or less. Otherwise, if the service standard is missed by more than 50% of the standard, CIPO will remit 50% of the fee paid. Further, CIPO is required to remit such portion of the fee paid before July 1 of the following fiscal year.

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aclee@marks-clerk.ca

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