Trademark search, filing and monitoring

No, the result is not legal advice and Trademarking is not a law firm. The likelihood score is an estimate built from public registry data: identical and similar marks, how close they sound and look, whether the goods and services overlap and whether the record is still alive. For many founders that is enough to drop a risky name early or to file a clean one in their own name. When an office requires a representative, for example a US-licensed attorney for applicants domiciled outside the United States, or an EEA representative at the EUIPO for applicants outside the EEA, the filing package goes to a partner attorney who files it for you. If your situation is unusual (a dispute, a cease and desist letter, a coexistence agreement), talk to an attorney before you act.

It measures what the registers can tell: live marks that are identical or close in spelling, sound and meaning, in the classes you sell in, in the offices you picked. A name with no close live records in your classes scores high. A name with an identical registered mark in the same class scores low, and you see that record with its number and a link to the office. What the score cannot see is use that never reached a register (common law rights in the US, for example), how a particular examiner will read descriptiveness, and marks filed in the last few days that the office has not published yet. That is why the result shows the conflicts behind the number, so you can judge them yourself, and why monitoring keeps checking after you file.

Searches and fee tables cover the United States (USPTO), the European Union (EUIPO), the United Kingdom (UKIPO), international registrations under the Madrid System (WIPO), Canada (CIPO), Australia (IP Australia), Poland (UPRP) and India. Every result names the office it came from and links to the official record, so you can always check the source. Registry data refreshes on a daily cycle per office.

You do, and the application is always in your own name or your company name. Trademarking prepares the package: owner details, the mark, the Nice classes, goods and services wording taken from the office ID lists where possible, the specimen checklist and the office specific steps. You submit it in the office portal. Where an office requires a representative, a partner attorney files the same package for you and you stay the owner on the record. We never file in our name, and we never hold your mark.

Official fees are set by each office and paid directly to that office, never to Trademarking. As a rough guide from the fee tables we track: the USPTO charges 350 USD per class for an electronic application, the EUIPO 850 EUR for the first class, the UKIPO 170 GBP for one class plus 50 GBP for each extra class. The cost estimator on this page and the trademark registration cost guide show the table for each office with the source link. Your subscription covers the software, not the office fees.

Because most of the risk starts after you file. Other people keep filing similar names every day, opposition windows open and close in 30 to 120 days depending on the office, renewals come due every ten years, and you will check more names than you think (product lines, sub-brands, new markets). A one-time filing service stops caring the day the application is sent. The subscription keeps the search, the monitoring, the deadlines and the portfolio running all year, at a price that is close to what a single law firm watch costs for one mark.

Yes. You cancel in the billing portal from your workspace, and your plan stays active to the end of the period you paid for. Until then monitoring keeps running and you can export your portfolio, filing packages and alert history as CSV and PDF. After the period ends, monitoring stops and no new alerts are sent. Payments are final under our refund policy, so canceling does not refund the period already charged.

No. The names you search stay private to your workspace. We do not sell them, we do not publish them, and we do not file anything based on them. Searches run against registry data we already hold, so typing an unreleased product name does not send it to an office. Team members see the searches of their own workspace, and on the Agency plan each client workspace is separated.

Yes, that is what the Agency plan is for. You get client workspaces, monitoring of up to 250 marks, white label reports with your logo and colors, unlimited seats, SSO and an API for search and watch alerts. Naming agencies screen dozens of candidate names per project and send a clean report under their own brand. IP firms run watch reports for client portfolios and keep docketing in one place.

A quick trademark search checks whether an identical or very close mark already exists. A clearance search goes further: phonetic and visual variants, translations, related classes and the status of each record, so you can judge the risk of an objection or an opposition. Trademarking runs the second kind by default and shows the result as a likelihood score with the conflicts that drove it.

Tell us what you sell in plain words and we suggest the classes that match, with the reason for each one. Software you download is usually class 9, software you offer online is class 42, clothing is class 25, cosmetics class 3, retail services class 35. Filing in too few classes leaves gaps, filing in too many costs more and invites oppositions. The trademark classes hub explains all 45 with examples.

Word marks are searched in the demo. After signup you can mark a check as including a logo, and the filing package handles a figurative mark (the image file, the description and the color claim). Design similarity is reviewed in the conflicts list together with the word elements, because most logo conflicts come from the words inside them.