Other Solutions

Our business does not only embrace trademarks.

There are more types of intellectual property

We also search and monitor company names, domains, designs, patents, and utility models for you. Further, we offer searching and watching of titles and slogans exclusively for the German market.

Company Names

Trademarks can also conflict with other IP rights, mainly company names and domains. In the official commercial registers and other databases and directories, we search for company names that are identical or very similar.

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Domains

We own an extensive domain database and specially developed a technology to search for domains. We can carry out profound identity and component searches and similarity searches based on our search algorithms – nationally, regionally, and worldwide.

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Designs

In the relevant Locarno classes, we go through all illustrations to find those that resemble your design. We do refrain from using image classifications. These would undoubtedly reduce the number of hits to be sighted but bear the risk of not finding all relevant designs.

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Patents

We search for similar patents in the relevant patent classes. If there are many hits, we limit the result by employing suitable keywords. We review the remaining patents or utility models one by one. You only receive the most relevant hits from us, together with their bibliographic data, an excerpt, and an illustration.

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Titles

We use the following databases from the German-speaking area for title search or monitoring: title protection database, journal database, book title database, TV formats database, film title database, music title database, software database, and other official databases.

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Slogans

Here we close a gap in the search for advertising messages. Our database is a leading one in the German-speaking area. It includes slogans and headlines from German-language journals, magazines, and journals from 2000 onwards.

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SMD carries out their design searches very thoroughly. Preliminary searches are conducted if necessary. Moreover, they perform supplementary keyword searches in further, related classes.
Dr. Jens HerrguthDr. Herrguth Patentanwalt Intellectual Property
We have been working with SMD for more than two decades. The personal contacts with their staff and the high quality of the search results and design searches matter to us.
Dr. Christian Thomas KUHNEN & WACKER
SMD's search portfolio is an ideal complement to our work and activities regarding trademark applications in Germany and abroad. We have always been happy to draw on SMD's reliable solutions.
Jens Christian Stark DR. STARK & PARTNER PATENTANWÄLTE mbB

Ann Kristin Dietrich

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