A complete Expert report, run on September 16, 2026 for coffee roasting; coffee shop and cafe services. Nothing on this page is written for the website. Every number, row and paragraph below is read out of the report itself.
The score answers one question: would the USPTO register this name for these goods? It is a registrability screen, not a clearance verdict, and it is built from two things read together. How distinctive the name is on its own, and how close the marks already on the federal register are. A score of 1 is the bottom of the scale. It means the report found something that would very likely end the application as filed, not something to argue about at the margins.
The deciding factor was a conflict on the register: SOLSTICE, registered in Class 43 for Restaurant services, rated high risk.
Web findings, state business records and domain results never move this number. They are reported as information, lower down, because an examining attorney searches the federal register.
The search returned 18 marks, 1 of which was rated medium risk or above. Each row carries the risk rating, the status on the register, the owner, the class and the exact goods and services the registration covers.
The goods column matters more than the class number. An examiner compares the identifications, so two marks in the same class can be unrelated and two marks in different classes can collide. The same name in a different industry goes into when that happens.
| Mark | Risk | Status | Owner | Class | Goods and services |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOLSTICE | high | registered | CAPTIVATE HOSPITALITY GROUP, LLC | 43 | Restaurant services |
| SUNRISE COFFEE | medium-low | registered | Sunrise Coffee, LLC | 43 | Coffee shops |
| SUNSET COFFEE | medium-low | registered | Sunset Grill Restaurants Ltd. | 43 | Eat-in and take-out food restaurant services; restaurant and café services; restaurant ser… |
| BREAKING DAWN COFFEE | medium-low | registered | Harrison Moudy | 30 | Coffee |
| TWILIGHT COFFEE | medium-low | filed | Twilight Coffee, LLC | 43 | Coffee shops |
| SUNRISE VIEW COFFEE | medium-low | filed | Joyce A Nunez | 30 | Coffee and coffee substitutes; Coffee and artificial coffee; Coffee; Coffee capsules conta… |
| SOLSTICE | medium-low | registered | Truco Enterprises, LP | 30 | Chips, namely, tortilla chips |
| SOLSTICE | medium-low | filed | JER Innovations, Inc. | 32 | Beauty beverages, namely, fruit juices and energy drinks containing skin-supporting nutrit… |
| SUNBEAM | low | registered | QUALITY BAKERS OF AMERICA COOPERATIVE, INC. | 30 | US 046: BREAD |
| SOLSTICE | low | registered | Solstice LLC | 43 | Resort style lodging services which provides its members the right to stay at a number of… |
| DAYBREAK | low | registered | Kennecott Land Company | 43 | providing community centers and facilities for social gatherings and use.; IC 016: newspap… |
| DAYBREAK | low | registered | LHM Hold DBD, LLC | 30 | Honey |
| SOLSTICE | low | filed | ODAIOS LIMITED | 30 | Ice cream; Ice cream desserts; Frozen confectionery containing ice cream |
| DAYBREAK | low | filed | LHMRE, LLC | 43 | Providing community centers and facilities for social gatherings and meeting use.; IC 041:… |
| JAVA SUNRISE COFFEE | low | filed | Jyotsna Pai | 30 | Coffee |
| SUNBEAM | low | registered | Stoycheff, George | 5 | anti-bacterial and anti-viral cleaners for sale in the commercial, industrial and institut… |
| SOLSTICE | low | filed | SOLSTICE ADVANCED MATERIALS, LLC | 5 | Stannous fluoride being a fluoride component used in oral care compositions.; IC 022: Raw… |
| SOLSTICE | low | registered | Reutov, Savaty | 14 | Watches; Watch bands; Watch cases being parts of watches |
A list of hits is not an analysis. The report writes up every mark it rated medium risk or above, comparing the marks as wholes and saying how the goods relate, which is the part that decides whether a close name actually matters. The one it wrote up here:
registered, Class 43, owned by CAPTIVATE HOSPITALITY GROUP, LLC. Goods and services: Restaurant services.
The applicant's mark 'SOLSTICE ROASTING' contains the entire cited mark 'SOLSTICE', adding the word 'ROASTING'. While 'SOLSTICE' is shared, the addition of 'ROASTING' pertains specifically to the coffee industry, but does not sufficiently differentiate the marks. The services overlap significantly as coffee shop and cafe services are a kind of restaurant service, making it likely that consumers would assume a connection between the sources. Confusion is likely due to the shared dominant term and closely related services.
Distinctiveness decides how easily a name registers and how much it protects once registered. This report placed SOLSTICE ROASTING in the suggestive band, with strong protection.
Hints at a quality and takes imagination (COPPERTONE, GREYHOUND). Ordinarily needs no proof of acquired distinctiveness; other grounds can still apply.
Words in the name that also appear in the goods: roasting. Wording that names what you sell is weak matter, and it is discounted when the marks are compared.
The distinctiveness spectrum explains the five bands and why the rung depends on the goods rather than on the word.
A name can be refused with no competitor involved at all: because it describes the goods, because it is primarily a surname, because it is geographic. This report raised none of those, and it says so in the report rather than staying silent about it.
The report judges the grounds a name and its goods can show on their own. Grounds that depend on how the mark is used, such as ornamental use and the specimen, cannot be screened from a name and a goods description, and the report says which ones it did not screen instead of implying it checked everything.
This is the section most search products leave out, and it is the one that tells you what the result is worth. The report names the classes and every term that was sent to the register, so nothing is claimed that was not run.
Sound-alikes run against the register: solstice roastings, SOLSTIS ROASTING, SOLSTIZ ROASTING, SOLSTIC ROASTING, SOLSTIK ROASTING, SOLSTIKS ROASTING, SOLSTIX ROASTING, SOLSTICK ROASTING, SOLSTICKZ ROASTING, SOLSTIKZ ROASTING, SOLSTIKES ROASTING, SOLSTIK ROAST, SOLSTIZ ROAST.
Meaning-alikes run against the register: SOLSTICE COFFEE, EQUINOX ROASTING, SUNRISE ROASTING, SUNSET ROASTING, SOLAR ROASTING, SUN ROASTING, DAWN ROASTING, TWILIGHT ROASTING, DAYBREAK ROASTING, SUNBEAM ROASTING, SOLARIS ROASTING, MIDDAY ROASTING, SUNSHINE ROASTING.
Searching sound-alikes and meaning-alikes is the part an exact-match check misses, and it is where most real conflicts are found. A name is refused for resembling an earlier one, not for copying it. How similar is too similar covers where that line falls.
U.S. trademark rights come from use, not from filing, so a business trading under a name for years without ever filing still has rights where it trades and appears in no register. Expert researches that separately and reports it as findings. It does not move the score, because the score measures registrability. 9 findings here:
Why a clean register search is not the whole answer explains what findings like these mean for a name you have not filed yet.
Checked directly against each registry, 10 endings in all. Domain availability has nothing to do with trademark rights in either direction: a free domain does not make a name available, and a taken one does not make it unavailable.
| Domain | Status |
|---|---|
| solsticeroasting.com | available |
| solsticeroasting.net | available |
| solsticeroasting.org | available |
| solsticeroasting.co | available |
| solsticeroasting.io | available |
| solsticeroasting.ai | available |
| solsticeroasting.app | available |
| solsticeroasting.dev | available |
| solsticeroasting.shop | available |
| solsticeroasting.us | available |
Every report carries this, and it is not boilerplate. A search can prove a name is a problem. It cannot prove a name is safe, because rights can exist without appearing anywhere searchable.
LaunchTime IP is software, not a law firm. No attorney reviews an individual search, and a report is not legal advice. The levels of trademark search explains where an automated screen sits against a full clearance search and a written opinion.
Run this on your own name First search $2, then $5. The report tells you what it covered and what it did not.A section-by-section walkthrough of this report explains what each part is for. The Basic sample is at /sample, and the same report in the product's own viewer is at /sample/view.