We offer various domestic and worldwide watch packages to give you an early warning of potentially infringing trademark applications, domain name registrations, or even registrations filed by your competitors. Policing your rights after you search and adopt your mark is essential to maintaining the equity in your trademark. Watch services allow you to guard the boundaries of your trademark rights without a heavy administrative burden. We can help you decide which watch service accomplishes your objectives most inexpensively; just email us at info@iph2.com.

We work with leading trademark search companies to provide a wide array of watch products. Here is a sampling of those products. These services cost far less than you might think and are a great way of policing your rights.

• Worldwide Publication Watch. Watch the entire world, or a particular geographic region. Each day this watch service reports all published marks that are phonetically identical, regardless of class, and all confusingly similar marks published in designated goods or services classes, in more than 200 countries. Designs can also be watched for a selected class. This remarkably inexpensive watch service is a good way to keep an eye on potentially infringing activities throughout the world.
  


• USPTO Pending Application Watch (Word or Design). Every week your mark is watched against all newly filed U.S. Federal trademark applications. You receive the earliest possible warning, well before potentially infringing trademarks are published for opposition. This watch allows you to immediately contact a potential infringer, potentially even before they invest heavily in or begin use of a mark, to encourage that infringer to adopt a different, non-infringing mark.
  


• USPTO Official Gazette Watch (Word or Design). Your mark is watched each week against all newly published U.S. Federal trademark applications. Reports of conflicting marks are sent to you five business days after the Official Gazette is published. This watch will provide you sufficient notice to consider whether to oppose the troublesome application once it has been published, thereby allowing you to maintain your mark's distinctiveness on the U.S. register.
  


• USPTO Ownership Pending Application Watch. You will receive notice of new applications or publications filed in all classes by a specific owner or individual. This watch permits you to monitor the applications of your competitors. Often this provides insights into their future product initiatives. This product also can be useful to help you track the progress of your own marks.
  


• Status Monitor. Monitor a specific U.S. Federal trademark by serial number. You'll be notified automatically when the mark reaches its next change of status, such as publication, allowance and registration. This service relieves you of the burden of docketing and periodically checking on the status of a mark you plan to oppose.
  


• Domain Name Watch. A weekly watch of your mark or domain name against new additions to the WHOIS database of domain names. This covers domain names with the generic level domains .com, .gov, .net, .org and .edu. Identical and closely similar domain names are reported. This watch is useful for policing the use of your trademarks in the domain names of third parties.
  


• Common Law Watch Package. A watch that updates the common law sections of a full trademark search, watching new business names and other common law databases that are searched, including the WHOIS domain name database.