Trademarks
Our mature searching facilities and profound know-how are based on 70 years of experience. We are specialised in similarity searches and device mark searches.
To enhance search quality for device marks, we do not only rely on the Vienna Classification. We make use of an own classification system additionally, which allows us to provide similarity searches for device marks for the German speaking area.
In case your search covers countries of the European Community or the Madrid System, we will always search for
Community Trademarks and International Registrations valid in the respective legislation
without additional costs.
Contact: Anne Maria WendrothOrder: Trademark searches Send inquiry: here Do you need more info? We will be happy to give you a free call back - especially in case of
monitoring concerns.
Trademark Searches with Legal Opinion (except Germany)
Through our subsidiary S.M.D. Benelux, we offer trademark searches with legal opinion (i-Search). The opinion is always provided by an experienced trade mark lawyer in the relevant jurisdiction.
i-Search is especially suited for global players - both trademark owners and law firms.
Do you need more info? We will be happy to give you a free call back - especially in case of
monitoring concerns.
Company Names
We do not only search in common databases (as trade registers, for example), but also in the internet.
We recommend buying combined search packages including company name search, trademark search and domain search (Extended Search).
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monitoring concerns.
Domains
In the early days of the internet already, we started collecting domain names worldwide. Today, we own a huge and unrivaled domain database. We keep searching the internet for new domain names, adding about 2 million each month. Furthermore, we have developed a special search technology for domains.
Thus, we were the first to market availability searches for domains.
At the early stage of your domain monitoring, we keep in close touch to adapt the search filter according to your individual needs. By this means we achieve an outstanding quality of our monitoring results.
Contact: Tillmann StaakOrder: Domain searches Send inquiry: here Do you need more info? We will be happy to give you a free call back - especially in case of
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Designs
We conduct similarity searches for prior designs in a database of all designs ever published, valid or invalid. The database contains German designs applied for after 01.07.1988, International designs applied for after 01.07.1979 and Community designs applied for after 01.04.2003, the date when Community designs were introduced.
We examine all designs of the relevant Locarno classes as to similarity with your design.
Certainly the amount of designs found could be strongly reduced through additional use of device mark classifications. On the other hand this bears the risk of missing out relevant designs. For quality reasons we completely rely on Locarno classes.
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Patents and utility models
In the relevant patent classes, we search patents and industrial designs published after 1975, respectively 1978.
In case of a huge amount of similar patents or utility models, we filter the result by means of further search terms. All remaining hits are carefully sighted.
Relevant hits are reported including their bibliographical data, abstract (if available) and an image.
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monitoring concerns.
Titles
We conduct title searches in the following databases for the German speaking area:
titles, magazine titles, book titles, TV program titles, film titles, song titles, software titles.
Additionally, we conduct further searches in several relevant online databases.
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monitoring concerns.
Slogans
Our database is cutting edge in the German speaking area. It contains slogans, headlines and trademarks consisting of more than one word that were published in German magazines.
Each month we add to our database around 5,000 new slogans from German magazines.
Contact: Anne Maria WendrothSend inquiry: here Do you need more info? We will be happy to give you a free call back - especially in case of
monitoring concerns.
Trademark related services: Data Management
In our daily business we manage large amounts of trademark data. Therefore, we have also over the years become experts in efficient data maintenance.
Often trademark data has to be imported into your systems manually. This is a huge task and may also result in incorrect data entries, such as typing errors etc. Further, separate trademark software applications are often incompatible and therefore the data has to be entered more than once. Our S.M.D. Data Service assists in solving this problem. With our Data Service you will be able to maintain your data quickly and easily.
We send you the
current official data of the local patent and trademark offices in
XML-format, which can easily be imported into and interpreted by all trademark software applications. In this way the trademark information in your trademark management system can be kept on track with ease.
Contact: Felix SpehlmannSend inquiry: here Do you need more info? We will be happy to give you a free call back - especially in case of
monitoring concerns.
Trademark administration
We take over the management of your trademark portfolio. Through a user-friendly customer interface and a secure connection you have access to your data. The user platform (Sharepoint) is customizable to your individual needs.
We will notify you of upcoming due dates such as renewal due dates, priorities, fees payable. And we will perform all data updates. Our service covers the first-time entry of your data. Furthermore we offer tailored status reports for individual trademarks or the entire portfolio.
Do you need more info? We will be happy to give you a free call back - especially in case of
monitoring concerns.