Trade Marks - Search and Status

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Argentina Lists trade mark bulletins etc, not searchable.
Search Australian trade Marks    The Australian patent office provides free access to trade mark and company name databases over the Internet:
  1. ATMOSS
  2. Trade Marks Image Viewer
  3. Trade Marks Mainframe
  4. Pericles TM database
  5. Business Names Applicant Search Service
Benelux Protocol marks Interface looks like below, then it takes you to screens where you can view status. Thanks to Jane Collins at Syngenta for this link.

Brazilian Trade Marks Go to search INQUIRY BASED ON TRADEMARKS and you get the screen below.

Interface looks like below.  Thanks for this link to Mike Dammann, Deputy Head of Trademarks, Syngenta Participations AG

  Canadian Trade Marks. This version of the Canadian Trade-marks Database is comprised of all active and many inactive marks that were either applied-for or registered pursuant to the current Trade-marks Act or former trade-mark legislation. The database also includes all trade-marks which were canceled, expunged, abandoned or refused after 1979, and some, but not all marks which were canceled, expunged, abandoned or refused prior to 1979.

The database also includes additional words and designs which are not by definition trade-marks, but that are protected by the Trade-marks Act or other related legislation. These are prohibited marks for which public notice has been given pursuant to Section 9 of the Trade-marks Act. Also included are plant variety denominations granted pursuant to the Plant Breeders' Rights Act, the Symbols and Badges of the Boy Scouts of Canada and the Girl Guides of Canada and marks of the Royal Canadian Legion. Furthermore, geographical indications for wines and spirits which have been entered on the list or for which protection has been sought are also part of the database.

Chile Requires registration (free).
Colombia Search by number, mark or beginning of mark by class. Thanks to Mike Dammann of Syngenta Participations AG, Switzerland for this link
Czech trade Mark database  
 searches based on: 
Application Nr. Registration Nr.Mark Nice Classes 
Vienna Classes Holder/Applicant Filing Date 1)
Estonia Trade Marks   Covers registered trademarks in the Republic of Estonia since 1 October 1992 and applications.  The search is free of charge, but presumes registration to become a user. (The users of Trademark Database need not register once more). After filling in the registration form opening of the user account and access to the database will be available in about 20 minutes
Search EU Community trade marks 
Search for Community Trade Mark Agents Search by name, town country or nationality.
  List of refused EU Community trade marks Refused trade marks, indicating the standard of distinctiveness required by OHIM.
Germany
To use this register here.
DPINFO service is available every day, 24 hours a day (Monday to Sunday).  
    
Access to the individual databases Pat/Gbm (patents/utility models), 
MNA/MZU (trade marks), GSM (industrial designs) and DDP (patents of the former GDR) is provided on workdays (Monday to Friday) from 7.30 to 18.00.

Note: The trade mark database is not available on workdays between 20.00 and 24.00.

Exception: no access to GSM file on the first Monday of the month (if workday) from 7.00 to 12.00.
Thanks for this link to Mike Dammann, Deputy Head of Trademarks, Syngenta Participations AG
Hong Kong TM Database

The database of trade mark records contains records of registered trade marks and trade mark applications pending before the Trade Marks Registry, save those registrations which have had the "Removed" status for over one year, and those applications which have had the "Application Withdrawn" status for over two years.

Please note that the historical details of trade mark registrations are not available on-line at this stage until further notice.

Hungarian trade Marks   Hungarian registered trademarks, geographic indications and pending applications filed nationally since 1996.
Irish Trade Marks

search  and view status here.

You can search the Irish TM database here and view status here. Includes pretty pictures. Thanks to Thierry Debled for these links.

Israeli Trade Marks Database   Search trade marks by class, words or numbers. Unfortunately its in Hebrew, but:
  • the left block is the class (e.g. 9 for software)
  • the right upper block is for word searches (e.g. microsoft)
  • the right lower block is for number searches (e.9. 55385 id for microsft)
  • hit the magnifying glass icon to do the search.
Japanese Trade Marks (Words) .  In English. Type in the trade mark then hit "index" to see the hits and go to "detail" for full information. There is an impressive amount of useful data given such as :
(111) [Registration number]
(151) [Registration date]
(450) [Date of publication of official gazette]
(260) [Publication number]
(442) [Publication date]
(210) [Application number]
(220) [Application date]
[Date of entry into force of prior right]
[Renewal application number]
[Date of request for renewal]
(156) [Renewal registration date]
(180) [Expiration date of the term of the right]
[Expiration date of paying in installments]
[Transmission date of refusal]
[Date of final disposition]
[Type of final disposition]
[Type of application]
 Japanese Figure Trade Marks In the Figure Trademark Search Service, the figurative elements of figure trademarks are coded, and each is allotted a term (figure term).  These figure terms are used as search keys to search for trademarks that have identical figure terms from the list of figure trademarks that are currently registered/valid, as well as those that are pending.  When the relevant trademarks are retrieved, the results are displayed on the screen.

Because the similarity of a trademark must be judged comprehensively from the appearance, appellation and concept of the trademark, there is no guarantee that all figure trademarks retrieved in this service are similar. (See Section 4(1)(xi) of Trademark Examination Guidelines 9).  Find out more.

 

Jordan No, not the silicone celebrity, but the country.  This site tends to be up and down more often than, well, Jordan.  When it is up there are some trade mark links buried in there somewhere. Thanks for this link to Mike Dammann, Deputy Head of Trademarks, Syngenta Participations AG
Madrid International marks   Interface looks like below, then it takes you to screens where you can view status. Thanks to Jane Collins at Syngenta for this link.

Morocco Did you know there are 4 Moroccan registered trademarks including the word "WOODBINE"?  

Allows searching by anteriority (name?) and applicant, for Moroccan and International marks (although i couldn't get the latter to work). Thanks to Mike Dammann of Syngenta Participations AG, Switzerland for this link

 

New Zealand trade marks Excellent multi-field searching.  Thanks to Barbara Finn at JAMES & WELLS, New Zealand for this link http://www.iponz.govt.nz/search/cad/dbssiten.main 

Peru I knew that GCSE in Peruvian would come in handy one day:

This service allows the public in general to consult, free of charge, the status of files as well as the progress of such, in a direct and efficient way which allows him (or her) to save the time that would take him (or her) to carry out the same consultation in the Peruvian offices.

The option
"Consulta de Expediente" (Consultation of File) allows you to visualise the information of a file entering its number and year.

The option
"Consulta por Certificado" (Consultation by Certificate) allows you to visualise the information of a granted file entering the type of request and the number of certificate. A list of all the files related to the number of certificate is obtained. Select a number of file to visualize its data.

The option
"Relación de Marcar Publicadas" (Relation To mark Published) allows you to visualise the information of all the files segun the Date of selected Publication.

Thanks to Mike Dammann of Syngenta Participations AG, Switzerland for this link

 

Philippines Trade Marks Interface looks like below, then it takes you to screens where you can view status. Thanks to Jane Collins at Syngenta for this link.

Search Singapore Trade Marks Quite a powerful search engine.
Search Slovak Trade Marks Registration (free of charge, only once) is necessary.
Slovenian Trade Marks

Results look like this:

 Hits 1 through 17 out of 17 selected records

1. 6980480 Coca - Cola (Scanned image)
THE COCA-COLA COMPANY, US (United States)

 

Swedish Trade Marks Database   Swedish trademarks 

Thanks to Hĺkan Engborg, Web designer at the Swedish Patent and Registration Office, for providing the following updates:

Swedish Trademarks Database
:

Madrid Protocol (WIPO):

EU-Trademark system (OHIM):

Swiss Trade Marks Go to search query > trade marks > Novice or Expert.

Novice interface looks like below.  Expert interface allows Boolean operators. Thanks for this link to Mike Dammann, Deputy Head of Trademarks, Syngenta Participations AG

UK Trade Mark Status   As the UK is the centre of all civilisation I am sure you will want to know the status of Uk marks.
UK Patent Office Trade Marks Database. Between the hours of 07:30 and 19:30 UK time on weekdays (excluding bank holidays in England and Wales) you can get access to this database for free.
UK Trade Mark Classification Index   
  Status check for US Trade Marks    In case you though tarr was a familiar way of saying thank you, take a look at this TM database at the USPTO.
Tess US Searchable Trademarks DATABASE  The US Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) is currently deployed as pilot. This will be a replacement for the US Trademark Search Database. However, in order to provide an easy transition, both of these systems will be running parallel until further notice. Currently, TESS contains more than 2.6 million pending, registered and dead records.
Free Search for US Trade Marks  From the US Patent Office again, why so many US TM databases?
Search Vietnamese Trade Marks Just type the mark into the box and hit return.  Thanks to SHYAM SUNDER IYER ADVOCATE-IP INDIA for this link.
 

Our friends at the Office for the Harmonisation of the Internal Market ("OHIM") have set up a brand spanking new web site called OAMIONLINE. This site is so new it is partly still being written. Within this site you can get information on The Community Trade Mark, such as forms, List of Fees, Guidelines, Opposition Decisions, and : 

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This site is intended entirely for private study and no guarantee is given nor implied as to the correctness or completeness of information contained here. Copyright John Mayall 1998-2005. Last updated.17-Dec-2005