Built on the grounds themselves
The engine encodes the statutory refusal grounds with severities assigned by an attorney, the distinctiveness spectrum, and the confusion factors — not a keyword match dressed up as a verdict.
A live check against the USPTO federal register, run on an attorney-approved search protocol — and a report that tells you plainly what it looked at and what it could not.
Your first search is $2. No subscription. See a sample report →
Most "free trademark search" tools do one thing: look for an exact match and tell you it is available. That is not what an examining attorney does, and it is why people are surprised when a refusal arrives eight months later.
A refusal usually does not come from an identical name. It comes from a confusingly similar one in related goods — different spelling, same sound; a different word, same meaning — or from the name being descriptive of what you sell, which is a refusal that has nothing to do with anybody else at all.
| This search | Does it? |
|---|---|
| Live and pending marks on the USPTO federal register | Yes |
| Sound-alikes, misspellings and near-identical spellings | Yes |
| Distinctiveness — is the name generic or merely descriptive | Yes |
| The statutory grounds an examiner applies, scored by severity | Yes |
| State trademark registers | No — federal register only |
| Unregistered common-law use by other businesses | Paid tier adds a web pass; still unverified |
| An attorney's opinion on your particular facts | No — that is legal work, and it is separate |
Saying so is the point. A screen that does not tell you its own limits is not giving you a clean result — it is giving you an incomplete one and letting you think it is clean.
The engine encodes the statutory refusal grounds with severities assigned by an attorney, the distinctiveness spectrum, and the confusion factors — not a keyword match dressed up as a verdict.
An automated screen can report what it found. It cannot tell you a name is worth registering — that is a conclusion about your facts, and it needs a lawyer. Anything that skips that distinction is selling, not advising.
The name and goods you enter are used to run your report and nothing else — not sold, not shared, not turned into a lead for somebody's sales team. The privacy policy says so in writing.
The search methodology — what gets searched, how near-misses are scored, which refusal grounds are screened — was designed and approved by a licensed U.S. trademark attorney. The about page spells out exactly where that line sits.
It is enough to rule a name out, and that is worth a great deal — most names that are going to fail, fail visibly. It is not enough to rule a name in. A knockout screen covers the federal register; rights can also come from unregistered use, and weighing all of it against your specific goods is legal work.
A knockout search is a fast pass looking for obvious blockers — the point is to kill bad candidates cheaply before anyone spends money on them. A full clearance search is broader and is read by an attorney, who then tells you what the risk actually is. The search here is a knockout search.
Sometimes. Trademark rights are tied to particular goods and services, so the same word can be registered by different owners in unrelated fields — that is why there is a Delta for airlines and a Delta for taps. Whether two uses are close enough to conflict is a judgment on the facts, not a lookup.
Yes, and it is free and authoritative for what it contains. It also assumes you know what to search for and how to read what comes back — it will not tell you that a different-looking mark sounds identical, or that your name is descriptive. Both are ordinary reasons applications are refused.
If you are based in the United States, you may file for yourself. If you are domiciled outside it, USPTO rules require a licensed U.S. attorney. Either way, what a lawyer changes is not the typing — it is the decisions about scope, basis and wording that cannot be broadened after you file.
Your first search is $2, then $5 each — or ten for $35. If it comes back clean you will know what "clean" did and did not cover; if it comes back with problems you will see which ground each one falls under.
This is an automated software tool, and its results are not legal advice. No search can guarantee registration.