Conduct a Broad Worldwide Trademark Search?
TOPIC: Conducting a trademark screening search worldwide enables you to check to see if there are marks already out there that would be likely to cause confusion with a mark you are hoping to adopt. This type of search can help you avoid: 1) refusal of your trademark application due to likelihood of confusion; 2) legal action by others; and 3) expenditures for market materials or lost brand name recognition if the mark later must be withdrawn. Note: The Dialog TRADEMARKSCAN databases are designed to be used as screening tools not as the sole basis for clearing a new name or filing a trademark application.
In this example, you will do a global search in all TRADEMARKSCAN databases (TMKS) for the trademark "Xerox." Be sure to consider variant spellings/phonetic equivalents in your search statement.
COMMAND SUMMARY
BEGIN TMKS NOT 225
SS TR=(XEROX? OR ZEROX? OR XEROCKS? OR ZEROCKS?)
TYPE S5/49/1-10
HOW TO...
1. BEGIN all TRADEMARKSCAN databases available on Dialog worldwide, but not the Domain Names database (File 225).
Note: Some database headers are omitted from this display. |
?begin tmks
SYSTEM:OS - DIALOG OneSearch
File 126:TRADEMARKSCAN(R)-U.K. 2006/Oct W5
(c) 2006 Thomson CompuMark
File 127:Trademarkscan(R)-Canada 2006/Oct 25
(c) 2006 Thomson CompuMark
File 226:TRADEMARKSCAN(R)-US Fed OG 061024/AP 061026
(c) 2006 Thomson & Thomson
File 227:TRADEMARKSCAN(R)-Community Tmks 2006/Oct W4
(c) 2006 Thomson CompuMark
File 228:TRADEMARKSCAN(R)-Spain 2006/Oct W5
(c) 2006 Thomson CompuMark
File 246:Trademarkscan(R)-U.S. State 2006/Oct 24
(c) 2006 Thomson CompuMark
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2. Using the rotated trademark index (TR=) will retrieve the letter strings as prefixes, suffixes, embedded in a term or as a standalone term. Note: The end question mark must be used whenever the TR= index is used.
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Set Items Description
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?SS TR=(XEROX? OR ZEROX? OR XEROCKS? OR ZEROCKS?)
S1 380 TR=XEROX?
S2 29 TR=ZEROX?
S3 0 TR=XEROCKS?
S4 1 TR=ZEROCKS?
S5 406 TR=(XEROX? OR ZEROX? OR XEROCKS? OR ZEROCKS?)
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3. TYPE a record from each database using Format 49 to see the trademark.
"Xerox" as a standalone term
"Xerox" in a slogan
"Xerox" as a prefix
"Seroxid" as a sound alike prefix
"Serock" as a sound alike suffix
Note: Some of the records are omitted from this display.
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?T S5/49/1 FROM EACH
5/49/1 (Item 1 from file: 126)
01182285
< XEROX FREEFLOW
REGISTER: UK
(c)British Crown Copyright
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5/49/74 (Item 1 from file: 226)
08976876 * TRADEMARK IMAGE AVAILABLE *
XEROX MAKES YOUR WORK...FLOW Block Letters
5/49/133 (Item 1 from file: 227)
00470962
XEROX NUVERA
REGISTER: COMMUNITY TRADEMARKS
5/49/148 (Item 1 from file: 228)
01341460
XEROXSTORE
REGISTER: ESPANA
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5/49/235 (Item 1 from file: 658)
00681549
ZEROXID
REGISTER: BENELUX
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5/49/281 (Item 1 from file: 669)
02875584 * TRADEMARK IMAGE AVAILABLE *
DANIZEROCK.S.P (and Design and Color)
JAPANESE PRONUNCIATION: DANIZEROKKUESUPII
COUNTRY OF FILING: JAPAN
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