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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.