Our turnaround time is 2-5 business days, with the vast majority of our searches taking 3-4. Our turnaround time is dependent upon our backlog.
If you require your search sooner, we may be able to accommodate you with a 24 hour rush service which has an additional charge of $100. Please call our offices at 201-825-1060 to confirm availability. If we have the production time available, we will add the additional fee to your credit card after your order is placed.
You can download a PDF copy of our Sample Search Here.
You will receive a full trademark search report. It will be broken down into Federal, State and various Common Law sections in alphabetical order. This will include all currently registered, pending, abandoned, canceled and expired trademarks and service marks, both identical and similar to your proposed mark.
We will also conduct various wild card searches, where we not only search your exact name, but variations of the mark. All marks that we find similar to your proposed mark are investigated so we can supply you with full details on those marks: owner of mark, status, goods/services, registration number, date of registration and contact address. We will also provide you with a summary letter, explaining the basic results that were found. For more information visit our Services Page
All reports are sent via email in PDF or Word Document format. Results can be mailed for an extra charge.
The industry leader, Thomson Reuters® is a great company that has been around for a very long time. They do excellent work and have the best data in the industry. That’s why we purchase all of our Federal and State data from them.
Like any large publically traded company which has been around for a long time, they have many old world costs; brick and mortar operations, various levels of management and a need to make a hefty profit to keep their shareholders happy.
Creative Trademark was among the very first trademark research firms on the Internet. We started back in 1997 and like many internet businesses we are a disruptive technology that revolutionized an industry. Back in 1996 attorneys had two choices; buy a search from Thomson Reuters®—which priced themselves like the only game in town, that they were—or do it themselves.
We are a privately held, distributed company with a flat organizational structure. We have streamlined the process of doing a trademark search and we can do the work for less while still making a fair profit. Think of us as a wholesale trademark research company.
Please see the many testimonials we have displayed on every page of our site. We are proud to say that they include some of the top IP firms in the country. We use the same Federal and State data, we have amazing customer service and best of all, every one of our search strategies is created by someone with over 15 years of experience in the industry. We don’t even think Thomson Reuters® can make that claim.
Wait… there is ONE big difference… we don’t send you your search in a nice little plastic report cover. Otherwise we don’t see any difference, other than that we charge you hundreds of dollars less.
Creative Trademark Services has been searching trademarks for over 20 years and officially started our business on the internet in 1997. Both our office manager and trademark manager have over 20 years of experience in the field and personally create our search strategy for every single one of our searches.
Our principal owner, is the author of the popular book How To Trademark – Protect the name of your business, product or slogan.
Please note the various testimonials we proudly display on every page of our website. We think there is no better way for us to tell you about our company than to let our customers tell you in their own words.
Creative Trademark Services utilizes the highest quality data available as demanded by our customers. Attorneys will only accept Federal & State results searched via Thomson Reuters® subscription services; we are proud to say that every single search we have conducted since 1997, has been completed using Thomson data.
We have a great FREE report that we are making available to our website visitors called “How to read a trademark research report in plain English”
This report will explain how to read and understand a comprehensive full trademark search and it also has some great basic information on Trademarks as well.
To read the entire report, click here to download our free PDF report now!
And if you really want to find out more about everything “Trademark” our principal owner, is the author of the popular book How To Trademark – Protect the name of your business, product or slogan.
Logo searches are much more complicated searches that are only searchable by codes and are very expensive, often costing thousands of dollars.
There are some services that use image recognition software but we haven’t found that to be accurate enough to feel comfortable selling it as a service to our clients.
When we do a Full Comprehensive or Federal search we can provide you with all the images that have been filed for records we retrieve in the Federal USPTO database. We call this “associated images”. We are NOT searching via your image in this case. We are only providing you with any images that may be filed with whatever records we find during a normal text search. This additional service can be added on to your order when you checkout.
Some clients absolutely require a full image search to properly protect their design.
Many however are only concerned with infringing on other Marks that are similar to their name since so many parts of a design are disclaimed.
For those, our “associated images” may be the perfect afforable solution.
As always, check with your Attorney before making such a decision.
We conduct our searches in all classes and categories, not just the class of your proposed mark. We do request a description of how you plan to use your mark, but that is only to allow us to do a better job in creating a concise report. You will ALWAYS get all of the results, for any exact match or close match.
We research not only your exact mark, but we investigate variations, similarities, truncations, homonyms, spelling differences, and language translations of your proposed mark, as they may all cause a potential conflict with your mark.
Our searches are conducted in all 50 US states and Puerto Rico, not just the location state of your proposed mark.