Canada and the United States have separate legal systems. If you want the exclusive right to use a name in both countries, you have to obtain trademark registrations from both governments.

Formalized – This means that the government has entered your application data into the system, and it is waiting in the examination queue.

After your trademark is approved for publication, your trademark is published in our weekly online Trademark Official Gazette. Your trademark hasn't yet registered. Publication begins a 30-day period during which any member of the public who thinks they'll be harmed by the registration of your trademark may oppose it.

You can search all applied-for and registered trademarks free of charge by using the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)'s Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS). If your mark includes a design element, you will have to search it by using a design code.