Trademark research

Are you planning to apply for trademark protection or do you already work with protected trademarks?

Then we can offer you the following services:

Trademark research

Research on the identity and similarity with German national trademarks, with internationally registered trademarks (IR-Marks), with European Community Trade Marks (EC-Marks) and US trademarks, prior to your trademark application.

Scope of research

1. Database of German national trademarks
2. Database of European Community Trade Marks (CTM)
3. Database of internationally registered trademarks (IR)
4. On request, national research in specific countries (including the US)
5. Registered plant variety names in the UPOV member states

Extended trademark monitoring to avoid infringement of your trademark

Monitoring to prevent infringement of and collision with your trademark applications; checks against trademark infringement by identical products in the databases mentioned above – particularly in class 31 (agricultural, horticultural, and forestry products, and grains included in class 31; live animals; fresh fruit and vegetables; seeds, live plants and natural flowers; feedstuffs, malt).