LaunchTime IP does two jobs, and does them properly: it searches a brand name the way a professional would before you fall in love with it, and it watches the USPTO deadlines on the marks you already own so nothing lapses quietly.
Most founders pick a name, buy the domain, print the labels — and only then discover someone else got to the trademark first. The information that would have warned them was public the whole time. It just lives in databases most people never think to search, in formats built for examiners rather than founders.
LaunchTime IP puts that check at the start, where it belongs. Type the name, say what you sell, and get a report that reads like an answer instead of a data dump: what's already registered, what's confusingly close, and how strong your name is likely to be if you file.
Every search runs against the USPTO's live trademark register — registered marks and pending applications — not a cached snapshot.
Trademark conflicts don't require identical spelling. The search runs phonetic matching and meaning-based matching, because "Kwik" blocks "Quick".
Names are screened against the statutory grounds for refusal — descriptiveness, surnames, geographic terms and the rest — before you spend a filing fee finding out.
Each report ends with a registrability score and a plain-language read of the risk, scoped to the goods you actually sell.
The Expert search adds what the register can't show: unregistered common-law use on the web, state business registrations that are searchable online, and domain availability across popular endings.
Import the marks you own and the docketing service tracks every USPTO maintenance window — refreshed daily, with email alerts before anything comes due.
Designed the way a professional clearance search is run.
The search methodology — what gets searched, how near-misses are scored, which grounds for refusal are screened — was designed and approved by a licensed U.S. trademark attorney. That's why the reports weigh likelihood of confusion the way an examiner would instead of just string-matching names.
To be equally clear about the other side of that coin: LaunchTime IP is software, not a law firm. No attorney reviews your individual search, the reports are not legal advice, and using this site does not create an attorney–client relationship. When your situation needs a lawyer's judgment — a close conflict, a dispute, an unusual filing — hire a trademark attorney and hand them your report as a head start.
Pricing is flat and public: a Basic search is $5 (your first is $2), an Expert search is $20, and ten-packs cost less. Deadline monitoring is a small subscription. There are no calls to book, no quotes to request, and no upsell disguised as a result.
Questions? Write to hello@launchtimeip.com.
Nothing on this site is legal advice, and using it does not create an attorney–client relationship. Please do not send confidential information.