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Trademark clearance: conflicts and absolute grounds,screened in local language and culture.

22 similarity patterns — phonetic, cross-script and character look-alikes — plus per-jurisdiction absolute-grounds risk, in one client-ready report.

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Coverage map: 90+ trademark jurisdictions
United Kingdom AT RISK STARLIGHT Word-order match Conflicts with registered LIGHTSTAR — examiners treat reordered word marks as the same mark.
Switzerland CRITICAL HELVETIA VAULT Protected national designation "Helvetia" is a protected national designation — barred from registration.
Canada FIXABLE VITEPAY Descriptive in French "vite" means "quick" — non-distinctive for payment services in French Canada.

Language, geography, and cultural risks checked per jurisdiction — not just similar names.

  • 22 similarity patterns · 100M+ active records
  • Absolute grounds in every local language
  • 90+ jurisdictions · one client-ready report
  • Designed and reviewed by a practicing patent attorney · 15+ years of trademark experience

The problem today

You know how to clear a mark. The problem is the manual work around it — and what it misses.

The manual work

Economics

First-pass clearance eats expert time and margin.

  • Senior hours spent on repetitive screening
  • Fixed-fee work turns into low-margin hours
  • Juniors still need supervision
  • Clients wait on your review

Fragmented workflow

Multi-country clearance is still a manual process.

  • Different registries, interfaces and search logic
  • Different languages, inconsistent coverage
  • The same mark searched again and again
  • Results stitched together by hand

What it misses

Relative grounds risk

The conflicts that matter rarely look like exact matches.

  • Phonetic similarity and transliterations
  • Visual and cross-script lookalikes
  • Typos, transpositions and word-order variants
  • Leetspeak and number-word substitutions

Absolute grounds risk

A name can clear conflict search and still fail examination.

  • Descriptive or deceptive meaning in a local language
  • Religious or culturally sensitive terms
  • National symbols and protected geographic indications
  • Vulgar, offensive or public-policy terms

Demarka does the screening and the structured analysis — so your time goes to judgment, not repetitive collection and triage.

What a Demarka clearance evaluates

Conflicts with earlier marks

22 similarity patterns, across 100M+ active and recently expired trademark records.

Pattern Example you'd search What also gets flagged
Number / letter ↔ word 7UP · 4EVER Seven Up · Forever
Spelling & phonetic variants EXPRESS Xpress · eXpres · Ekspres
Common typos STARBUCKS Stabruks · Starbukcs
Multi-script transliteration GOOGLE Gugl · Гугл · グーグル · 谷歌
Cross-script lookalikes COBA (Latin) СОВА (Cyrillic)
Leetspeak substitution 2Fast4U Too Fast For You
Word order StarLight LightStar
Compound / split CocaCola Coca-Cola · Coca Cola

See all 22 similarity patterns

Absolute grounds

8 refusal-ground categories, evaluated per jurisdiction — in every official language, not just English.

National symbols

Flags, emblems, official insignia

Public figures

Famous people and fictional characters

Religious & cultural

Sensitive terms, per jurisdiction

Local-language meaning

Descriptive or deceptive terms

Public order / morality

Vulgar, offensive or barred terms

Geographic indications

Protected origin and place names

  • Every flag with a risk rating and a plain-language reason
  • Per-class registration-probability scoring

Read the full methodology

The result is one unified interactive clearance report with reasoning, risk scoring, and recommended next steps — not fragmented search output you have to assemble manually.

From mark to report in minutes, not weeks

One input step — the mark, its goods and services, and your target jurisdictions. Demarka evaluates conflicts and registrability risk in every selected jurisdiction.

  1. Enter the mark, its goods and services, and target jurisdictions
  2. Demarka runs conflict and registrability analysis
  3. Review one unified clearance report
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The report you hand to a client

A structured multi-jurisdiction clearance report — client-ready, in your firm's branding.

The deliverable

  • Interactive live report — drill into findings, explore flagged conflicts, query the analysis
  • White-label PDF & DOCX export
  • Shareable client link
  • Editable attorney judgment — adjust the final verdict to reflect your own assessment

What's in it

  • Each cited conflict rated on visual and phonetic similarity, plus goods/services overlap
  • Absolute-grounds risk — rated per category, with a plain-language reason
  • Per-class registration-probability scoring
  • A verdict per jurisdiction — Clear / Fixable / At Risk / Critical — with reasoning
  • Recommended next steps per jurisdiction

Turn "trust me" into "look" — show clients the reasoning, not just the conclusion.

Sample reports

Each example shows our actual output — verdict, reasoning, risks, and what to do next.

Demarka provides a structured second opinion — final judgment stays yours.

Trademark watch — same engine, same subscription

The same 22 similarity patterns behind your clearance run continuously against new filings — so potentially conflicting marks are flagged inside the opposition window, not after registration.

  • Watch your own marks or a client's portfolio
  • Email alert when a potentially conflicting application is filed — with a risk rating
  • No separate watch vendor. No per-mark enterprise pricing.
  • Monitoring slots included in every plan

How Demarka compares

Most trademark search platforms focus on conflict detection. Demarka adds absolute-grounds analysis, multilingual cultural and linguistic screening, and structured client-ready reporting — in one subscription.

Demarka Corsearch TM TKO Markify
Conflict search / similarity detection Conflict search
Absolute-grounds analysis Absolute grounds
Multilingual cultural & linguistic screening Cultural screening
Trademark watch in the same subscription TM watch included
Flat subscription pricing Flat pricing

What multi-country clearance usually costs

The traditional model

  • Billed per jurisdiction, per mark, often per class
  • Watch sold separately
  • Corsearch's published 2021 EMEA rates: a full EU27 search ≈ €4,500

Demarka

  • One flat monthly subscription
  • Search, report, absolute-grounds analysis and watch — all included
  • No per-jurisdiction, per-mark or per-class billing

Corsearch pricing references public 2021 materials; current pricing may differ. The comparison focuses on pricing model and included workflow components. Absolute-grounds analysis here means a structured per-jurisdiction assessment of whether a mark can register on its own merits — not isolated descriptiveness signals drawn from office-action records. Multilingual cultural & linguistic screening means screening for descriptive, deceptive or offensive meaning in a jurisdiction's own languages — not cross-language conflict matching.

Flat monthly pricing

Transparent subscription pricing for professional trademark clearance.

Solo
$99 $74 / month

$891 billed annually

For solo practitioners handling regular clearance work.

  • Unlimited trademark queries Search a mark and explore similar filings. Unlimited on every plan.
  • 25 full jurisdiction assessments / month A full registrability assessment of one mark in one jurisdiction — conflicts plus absolute grounds. Clearing a mark across 5 jurisdictions uses 5. ≈ 5 clearances of 5 jurisdictions each / month
  • 100 monitoring slots One slot watches one trademark in one jurisdiction, across all Nice classes.
  • 1 user seat
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Firm
$1,199 $899 / month

$10,791 billed annually

For firms running high-volume multi-jurisdiction clearance.

  • Unlimited trademark queries Search a mark and explore similar filings. Unlimited on every plan.
  • 300 full jurisdiction assessments / month A full registrability assessment of one mark in one jurisdiction — conflicts plus absolute grounds. Clearing a mark across 5 jurisdictions uses 5. ≈ 60 clearances of 5 jurisdictions each / month
  • 1000 monitoring slots One slot watches one trademark in one jurisdiction, across all Nice classes.
  • 15 user seats
  • Client data-collection form Share a branded form so clients submit their mark details directly — responses land in your workspace, attributed to each client.
  • White-label Replace Demarka's branding with your firm's across the whole client experience — every shared page and every document (search reports and clearance assessments), not just exports.
  • Dedicated onboarding
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Every plan includes

  • Full clearance — 22 similarity patterns and absolute-grounds analysis, in every official language
  • Interactive live report — reasoning and recommended next steps per jurisdiction
  • Integrated trademark watch
  • All Nice classes — no per-class billing
  • Unlimited support

Need more in a given month? Add capacity any time — your plan never hard-stops mid-month.

Need higher volume or enterprise controls? Enterprise adds unlimited seats, custom assessment limits, SSO, portfolio migration, and a named success manager.

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Need a one-time clearance for a single brand, not a subscription? See one-time plans

Questions, answered

No. Demarka provides a structured second opinion — a jurisdiction-level verdict with its reasoning and cited conflicts. Final judgment stays yours: you can adjust the final verdict in the report to reflect your own assessment.

The conflict search is deterministic, not generative — the same query returns the same result every time. AI is used in two bounded places only: filtering obvious non-matches, and the absolute-grounds reasoning. It never invents a conflict — every cited mark in your report comes from an official register.

Official national registries and WIPO Madrid — 100M+ active and recently expired marks, synchronized continuously. Cancelled or long-expired marks are excluded because they cannot block a new registration. Every report shows its sources and their last-update date.

Registry-based clearance has natural limits: unregistered common-law rights, very recent filings not yet published, and evidence outside official records. Demarka flags known gaps where relevant — final legal judgment remains yours.

Most assessments complete in minutes. A large multi-jurisdiction run, or one submitted at peak load, can take up to about half an hour — still the same working session, not days or weeks.

Yes. Demarka is operated from the EU (Portugal) and is GDPR-compliant. See our Privacy Policy for how client data is hosted and handled.

Not yet. Demarka currently focuses on word-mark clearance. Logo and device-mark similarity is on the roadmap.

14 days, with 15 jurisdiction assessments, 50 trademark queries and 3 monitoring slots included. No card required to start — you are only charged if you choose a paid plan.

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