Searching

We conduct clearance searches for potential trademarks and servicemarks.

Why do you conduct a clearance search?  Because you must know before you invest all the time and money to develop a product or service that your potential mark is not already being used by someone else.  If that were to occur, you could be subject to costly litigation, not to mention the loss of goodwill with your customers.  It is also advisable to know whether there are similar domain names available for registration or are already in use that contain your potential marks.

Please see the "Fees" link on the left for more information about our services for peforming clearance searches.

Monitoring 

We monitor multiple databases to protect you from unwitting and/or unscrupulous offenders using your mark in a confusing way (such as through the use of a similar sounding web address) or from selling shoddy products under a similar mark eroding the goodwill of your business.  One of the most efficient ways to keep tabs on unwitting or unscrupulous offenders is to monitor proposed registered marks and Intent To Use applications, domain name registrations, and reports of state records to determine whether similar names are being used.

Please see the "Fees" link on the left for more information about our monitoring services.