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Free trademark search across US, EU, UK — under three seconds.
Paste a candidate name. Get a signed screening signal in under three seconds against the USPTO, EUIPO, and UKIPO registers plus a common-law web scan. Five free per IP, no signup, no card.
What the free trademark search covers.
The free trademark search runs four probes in parallel and returns one screening signal:
- USPTO — live registrations, pending applications, and the phoneme-distance adjacency check against the full US register plus the TTAB opposition corpus. If the name sits next to a registered senior mark in the same industry class, the screening finds it.
- EUIPO — the European Union register. Relevant for any brand with EU customers, including remote SaaS.
- UKIPO — the UK register. Post-Brexit UK is a separate jurisdiction from EU; a name clear in Munich isn't automatically clear in London.
- Common law — a web scan for prior use that hasn't made it to any register yet. Surfaces up to three commercial sites using the same string. Additive evidence, not verdict-decisive.
Each source reports its coverage state honestly. If the EU index is a day stale, the freshness block says so. If a source failed to respond, the finding says that instead of pretending the check ran green. This matters because a false-clear on a trademark search is worse than a false-block: false-blocks cost you an iteration, false-clears cost you a launched brand.
How the free trademark search is different.
There are already free ways to search trademark registers. The USPTO's TESS interface is the canonical one. The EU equivalent is eSearch plus. Each is powerful and free — for one register at a time, with results you have to read like a research report.
The three things this search does that a raw register lookup doesn't:
- One call, three registers. Enter the name once. USPTO, EUIPO, and UKIPO are hit in parallel. You get one signal that summarises all three, not three tabs to reconcile.
- A screening signal instead of a hit list. PROCEED, PROCEED_STRATEGIC, or ABANDON — one of three tiers, plus the specific findings that drove the tier. You spend seconds triaging, not thirty minutes reading TESS output.
- A signed receipt an attorney can verify. The result is Ed25519 signed. If your attorney wants to double-check the search that led to a launch decision, the receipt is independently verifiable at etymolt.com/verify. No trust required.
What the numbers behind the search actually are.
The opposition-risk model that scores the trademark axis was trained on 177,880 real Trademark Trial and Appeal Board opposition outcomes and measured at AUC 0.6315 on a temporal-holdout test set (filing year 2024+). That's what a data scientist would want to know before trusting the score — details on /trust with methodology and confidence intervals.
The classifier is measurably better than random and honestly calibrated. It is not a substitute for a licensed trademark attorney. A free trademark search shrinks the shortlist and makes the paid consult that follows cheaper — that's the whole product.
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Frequently asked.
- Is the trademark search really free?
- The first five searches per IP address are free with no signup at all. After that you can create a free-tier account for more, or pay $0.25 per screening — no subscription, no minimum, cancel by not using it.
- Which trademark registers does the search cover?
- USPTO (the United States register, live and pending), EUIPO (the European Union register), UKIPO (the United Kingdom register), plus a common-law web scan for prior use that isn't in any register yet. Coverage of each register is surfaced in the result so you know how confident to be.
- Is this the same as a USPTO TESS search?
- Related but different. TESS is the USPTO's own search interface — free, powerful, and exactly one register. This search runs against the same underlying USPTO data plus EUIPO, UKIPO, and a common-law scan, and returns a screening signal instead of a raw hit list. The output is designed to be triaged in seconds, not read like a research report.
- Can I trust a free trademark search for a real launch?
- A screening result is not a legal opinion. What it is: a fast, honest, receipt-backed signal that lets you triage a shortlist before booking an attorney consult. If a screening returns ABANDON, you know to drop the candidate. If it returns PROCEED, the attorney consult that follows is cheaper because the obvious failures are already ruled out.
- What does the signed receipt do?
- Every screening returns a receipt signed with an Ed25519 key. The signature binds the name, the signal, the score, and the moment it was issued — nothing downstream can tamper with the receipt and hand you a modified copy. Paste any receipt at etymolt.com/verify and it checks the signature in your browser against the published Etymolt keyring. No server, no trust required.
- Does the search know about industry?
- Trademark risk is scoped by Nice class — the international industry classification for trademarks. A one-line description of what you're building (or explicit Nice classes) narrows the screening to the right class. Without that, the screening notes that the result is scoped to the software/SaaS classes by default and surfaces that limitation in the finding list.
Verify any result
See the signature?
Paste any receipt at etymolt.com/verify to verify it yourself, cryptographically, in your browser. No trust required.
Open the verifierEtymolt is a pre-launch screening signal, not a legal opinion. Signals returned by the trademark, domain, and cultural checks are computational outputs derived from public registry data and proprietary heuristics. They are not a substitute for a clearance opinion by a licensed trademark attorney. For any launch with material legal exposure a registered trademark attorney is the correct decision-maker; Etymolt makes the attorney's job cheaper by surfacing the obvious failures first. Full terms: etymolt.com/terms.
Screening methodology v2.4 · TTAB AUC 0.6315 (n=177,880) · CC BY 4.0