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How do you check if a trademark is already taken? – Patent Baron

October 31, 2025

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Transcript:

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You can check to see if a trademark is taken by visiting the trademark office side of the USPTO. There’s a website called TESS, which allows you to search pending applications, registered trademarks, or canceled or dead trademarks.

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and you want to enter the mark that you’re looking for, and you can see what kind of results come up. There’s ways to search for word marks, and you can also search for logo marks, and you can also search into more specific areas, the classes of goods or services that marks are registered under.

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And that can give you an idea of what’s available. And then you can decide if you’d like to pursue that or if you want to make a change and look for a different mark, which, again, could involve a word, a logo or a combination of a word and logo.

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