Trademark search UK
How to trademark a business name: search the registers yourself
Trademarks are searched by you or by a lawyer. The report links to USPTO, TMview and UK IPO so you can search each register yourself. The check is a review of public sources, not legal advice. Before you file or launch, check trademarks yourself or with a lawyer.
What a missed trademark cost Linko
In 2014 the start-up Linko received a cease-and-desist letter from Linko Data Systems, a US company.
Linko's own name search had missed this company. It had filed a trademark in the classes Linko was about to launch in. Finding the new name, Inbot, took over a month.
Source: guest post by Olga Steidl of Inbot, the company concerned, on tech.eu, 27 October 2014.
Limit of the check
The check does not search trademarks
A trademark search is not part of the check today. Trademarks are planned as a later extension, without a date.
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What you do yourself
The report links to USPTO, TMview and UK IPO. You search trademarks there.
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What the check is
A review of public sources, not legal advice. Before you file or launch, check trademarks yourself or with a lawyer.
Run the name check before the trademark search
Start with the check. Then search trademarks.
What does the check search first?
It searches Companies House (UK, using its published rules on 'same as' names and sensitive words), GLEIF, SEC EDGAR and Wikidata, the last as 'already known'.
What comes after the check?
The trademark search. The report links to USPTO, TMview and UK IPO so that you can search trademarks yourself.
Check the name before you commit
Run the free check on your shortlist. Then search the trademark registers with the links in the report.