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Figure 16

Internet traffic

Description

Figure 16 shows Internet traffic on the Canadian Intellectual Property Office Web site for the past three fiscal years, namely, 2007–2008, 2008–2009 and 2009–2010. For each year, the chart details the different types of traffic (related to patents, trade-marks, copyrights, industrial designs, home page access or Commissioner's decisions).
	2007-2008	2008-2009	2009-2010
Patent searches	12534599	1995068	2885113
Trade-mark searches	2534603	2767011	2798982
Home page access	610272	1072753	1151086
Copyright searches	167551	191424	223449
Commissioner's decision searches	12449	18815	26609
Industrial design searches	78664	76331	78339

Figure 17

Enquiries

Description

Figure 17 shows the number of inquiries received by Client Services in each of the past three fiscal years, namely, 2007–2008, 2008–2009 and 2009–2010.
	2007-2008	2008-2009	2009-2010
Enquiries	70850	72189	72297

Figure 18

Employees by age group (%)

Description

Figure 18 details the percentage of employees in each age group for the past three fiscal years, namely, 2007–2008, 2008–2009 and 2009–2010.
	< 35 Years	35–49 Years	50+ Years
March 2008	30.1%	45.1%	24.8%
March 2009	30.5%	44.6%	24.9%
March 2010	30.4%	42.8%	26.8%

Figure 19

Total employees

Description

Figure 19 shows the total employees at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office on March 31 for each of the past three fiscal years, namely, 2007–2008, 2008–2009 and 2009–2010.
	March 2008	March 2009	March 2010
Total employees	1069	1080	1102

Figure 20

Employees by gender

Description

Figure 20 details the number of employees by gender on March 31 for each of the past three fiscal years, namely, 2007–2008, 2008–2009 and 2009–2010.
	Male	Female
March 2008	479	590
March 2009	490	590
March 2010	496	606