CLEARANCE · FULL
Comprehensive Trademark Search
Federal, state and common-law clearance with a written risk report, so you find the problem before you spend on packaging.
Overview
A free lookup on the USPTO database tells you whether someone has registered your exact words. It does not tell you about the phonetically similar mark in a neighbouring class, the state registration nobody federalised, or the company three states over that has been using the name in commerce since 2014 and therefore has common-law rights that beat your application.
A comprehensive search is the cheapest insurance in the whole process. The alternative is finding out after you have printed packaging, bought the domain, paid for a brand identity and started running ads.
Turnaround
Report delivered within three to five business days. Rush turnaround available.
Price
$199 standalone
What is included
Everything in comprehensive trademark search
Federal register search
Live and dead marks, including pending applications, checked for identical, phonetic, translated and visually similar variants across related classes.
State register search
All fifty state trademark registers, which never appear in a federal database lookup but can still create a genuine conflict in your market.
Common-law search
Business name registrations, domain records, marketplace listings and web presence, because in the United States rights come from use, not only from registration.
Written risk report
Every hit graded high, medium or low risk, with plain-English reasoning about why it matters and what a likelihood-of-confusion analysis would probably conclude.
Registrability assessment
An honest read on whether the mark itself is protectable, or whether it is descriptive, generic or geographically deceptive enough to draw a refusal on its own merits.
Recommendation
A clear direction: file as is, file with narrowed goods, adjust the mark, or pick a different name. We tell you when the answer is the last one.
How it works
What happens, in order
- 01
Send the mark and the goods
We need the exact wording or logo and a real description of what you sell, because the search scope depends on both.
- 02
We run the full clearance
Federal, state and common-law sources, plus variants a database will not catch on its own.
- 03
You get the report
A written document you can keep, share with counsel, or show an investor during diligence.
- 04
We talk it through
By email, in plain language, so you can make the call with the facts in front of you.
Questions
Comprehensive Trademark Search FAQs
Substantially. The free search checks the federal register for close matches so you can rule out the obvious. A comprehensive search adds state registers and common-law use, checks phonetic and visual variants, and comes with a written risk assessment.
No, and anyone who tells you otherwise is overselling. Examination involves judgement, and rights can exist that no search surfaces. What a clean report does is remove the foreseeable risks and give you a documented basis for going ahead.
Yes. Design marks are searched on their design elements as well as any wording, which is why logo clearance is a separate exercise from word-mark clearance.
Ask about Comprehensive search
We reply to every message within one business day. Or email support@trademarkcertainty.com.
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