Trademark Availability:

How Much Money and Time Can You Save With a Simple Check

Below are the trademark availability search sites. Before you reserve your domain name you need to make sure that nobody owns the trademark on your desired web domain name.

This is an exhaustive list of places to search registered trademarks for availability.

To show the importance of doing this let me first tell you a story about one of my students. She had an idea for a web site.

She was going to call it I Quit based on a T-Shirt she was already producing and selling. Without going into the details of her site concept, she did a domain name search. It was available. Then she did a Trademark Search. Turns out it was a registered trademark. It was not being used but it was registered.

Had she bought the domain name and started using it, you can bet she would have received a letter in the mail. The letter in particular is a very special legal letter. It is called a cease and desist letter.

It means you stop, close down your web site and change the name or else the TM owner will pursue legal means to stop you.

This is a step you cannot skip.

Custom Search

United States Patent and Trademark Office You will probably want #2 in the box in the middle. The tag is...Search Marks but look around and learn.

UK Intellectual Property Office

Canadian Intellectual Property Office

The Australian Trade Mark Online Search System

18 Other TradeMark Registrars

Other Brand Search Engines

This will be a bit tedious. It is essential that you check the availability of a domain name, lest it is a trademark.

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