Some trademark challenges just don’t fit existing services. That’s where our Custom & Managed Solutions come in. Our trusted and experienced team develops innovative, practical solutions tailored to your precise needs. No matter what the challenge, we’re committed to a single mission: achieving your trademark research, clearance and protection goals.
Solve complex trademark research challenges that require specialized expertise or resources.
Serve as an outsourced extension of your in-house team when you need additional assistance or specialized skills or knowledge.
Provide ongoing “special projects” support, such as competitive research, data analytics or global trademark research project management and coordination.
Perform due diligence and data validation for mergers and acquisitions, trademark portfolio inventories, and other critical business needs.
Respond rapidly to time-sensitive issues, freeing your staff to focus on core business activities.
Keep you ahead of the curve, with innovative solutions that address changing legal, regulatory and market dynamics.
Provide global research support to help you reduce risk when entering new markets.
A South American energy company required ongoing research and analysis of key regional competitors.
We provide ongoing competitor research and analysis, delivering interactive reports with insights that help them understand their market and make key business decisions.
A global cosmetics company wanted to reduce administrative workload on associate network.
We partnered with their own established associate network to manage the entire process for complex, multi-jurisdictional trademark clearance projects, dramatically reducing the in-house administration and project management time required to clear new brands.
For a major U.S. consumer brand wanting to identify what's trending in their product category.
We perform custom searches of goods and industry terms to identify what’s trending in their product category and to help them better understand competitor trademark filing strategies.
A European automotive product brand with large trademark portfolio needed to identify gaps in protection.
We provided a global analysis of their trademark registrations across relevant classes, identifying gaps where protection was lacking.
A leading U.S. retailer needed assistance overcoming a USPTO examiner’s objection to a new brand.
We provided a comprehensive report on trademarks registered in specific classes, identifying several examples that provided an effective rebuttal.
A European company with a large brand portfolio had concerns about the integrity of its trademark data.
We validated a portfolio of more than 40,000 marks in 150 countries to verify up-to-date status and renewal information, helping ensure their rights continue to be protected.
A European home improvement brand was concerned about generic use of its trademark.
We performed specialized research to identify instances of their brand being used generically in trademark applications, identifying hundreds of examples to support enforcement action.
A European pharma company needed to perform multiple global design searches, but time and cost were prohibitive.
saving the client significant time and money.
OHIM registry changes required trademark owners to identify and update class headings.
We developed a special report to locate and identify European trademark records that use class headings, saving our clients thousands of hours of manual work and helping brand owners properly protect their valuable trademarks.