Australian Trade Mark Search

IP Australia's own search of registered and pending Australian trade marks, with phonetic, image and class searches.

Output: Lists of matching trade marks with full record details, an Excel export of up to 2,000 results, print-friendly pages and PDF reports
API: Australian Trade Mark Search API with a quick search and a lookup by trade mark number, using OAuth 2.0 client credentials
Hosting: Web app at search.ipaustralia.gov.au

Overview

Australian Trade Mark Search is the Australian Government's trade mark search system, run by IP Australia, and holds details of registered and pending Australian trade marks, including international registrations designating Australia. It is a web tool for applicants checking a mark before filing and for experienced searchers, with a quick view and an advanced view. The same records are available to developers through an Australian Trade Mark Search API, requested through the IP Australia developer portal.

Our take

Pick it if you plan to file in Australia and want to look at the register yourself first, and run several variants of the mark rather than one query, since IP Australia notes that word searching is very precise. It answers only for Australia, so if you are launching in other countries or need someone to judge whether a mark is clear to use, IP Australia itself points to a trade marks attorney for a comprehensive search.

Key Facts

Category	Trademark Search & Monitoring
Output	Lists of matching trade marks with full record details, an Excel export of up to 2,000 results, print-friendly pages and PDF reports
API	Australian Trade Mark Search API with a quick search and a lookup by trade mark number, using OAuth 2.0 client credentials
Hosting	Web app at search.ipaustralia.gov.au
Made in	Australia

Features

Registers and countries covered: Registered and pending Australian trade marks, including trade marks registered with the International Bureau designating Australia, which are found by their international registration number
Word, phonetic and image search: Word searches with exact, prefix, suffix, part, stem, fuzzy and phonetic options, phrases with AND, OR, NOT, quotes and wildcards, image search by visual similarity from an uploaded PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP or SVG up to 8 MB, advanced image search with standard image constituent terms, and searches by number or range, owner, party, address for service, goods and services text, status, dates, type and flags such as non-use
Goods, services and Nice classes: Searches across the 45 classes, with associated classes included by default; choosing Single limits the search to the classes entered
Clearance and conflict screening: A search of the register and not a clearance opinion: IP Australia says a trade marks attorney or lawyer can undertake comprehensive searches for prior registered or unregistered trade marks, and offers a separate free app, TM Checker, for feedback on the likely success of an application
Watch and alerts: Saved searches in My Searches and in search spaces do not refresh on their own: IP Australia states their results only update when the searches are rerun, with a Rerun all searches button; search spaces are kept for 100 days after last access
Reports and exports: Result sets of up to 2,000 export as a Microsoft Excel document, results print as a plain print-friendly page, and the advanced view generates PDF reports; searches run in the advanced view are kept in a My Searches list
Integrations and API: Australian Trade Mark Search API with a quick search endpoint returning matching trade mark numbers, filterable by type, status and update date, and an endpoint returning the publicly available details of one trade mark; access is requested through the IP Australia developer portal and uses OAuth 2.0 client credentials

Integrations

Integrations coming soon.

Deployment and Support

Deployment: Browser-based
Onboarding: Documentation and knowledge base

Pros and Cons

Strengths

From IP Australia, the office that examines Australian applications
Phonetic, fuzzy and stem word searches for spelling and sound variants
Image search by visual similarity from an uploaded logo
Excel export of up to 2,000 results and a documented search API

Limitations

Covers the Australian register only; other countries need other databases
The official pages describe no watch or email alerts for new filings
The image search does not read words inside an image, so they have to be typed separately

Pricing

Price on Request

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