USPTO Trademark Search Resources
Alt Legal Team | November 26, 2024
About the USPTO’s New Trademark Search System
This article contains information about the new USPTO Trademark Search, links to additional resources, plus video transcriptions of all Answers for Searching videos.
Answers for Searching – Video Q&A Series
Many users have questions about using the new USPTO Trademark Search system and we’ve worked with industry experts to help answer some of the most frequently asked questions in brief video tutorials. This page contains our full collection of video tutorials.
How to Search Using the USPTO’s New Trademark Search Tool
This article explains why the USPTO retired TESS and the pros/cons of the new USPTO Trademark Search. It also provides search tips including using the dropdown features, searching field tags, searching phonetic equivalents and truncation, searching by class, conducting design searches, searching for descriptiveness, and searching the trademark owners database.
USPTO Trademark Search: Sound Matching
Former USPTO trademark examiner Rachael Dickson prepared this article and phonetic equivalents (aka sound matching) chart to help users perform more effective searches using the new USPTO Trademark Search system.