Trademark Search & Monitoring Comparison

Australian Trade Mark Search vs. Trademarkia

At a glance

Best for

Best for applicants and practitioners who want to search the Australian trade mark register themselves before filing with IP Australia.

Trademarkia

Best for

Best for anyone who wants to check a US brand name or logo for free before filing it, and may want a law firm to file it afterwards.

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Full Comparison

Criterion	Australian Trade Mark Search	Trademarkia
Starting price	Not stated	Free search; reports from $199 Comprehensive search reports are $199 (Federal), $299 (Federal and Common Law) and $1,599 (Global). Brand monitoring is $99 a quarter after the month or year included in a filing package; standalone monitoring is quoted on request with monthly, quarterly or annual billing.
Free trial	Not stated	Free trademark search
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	Not stated
API	Australian Trade Mark Search API with a quick search and a lookup by trade mark number, using OAuth 2.0 client credentials	Bulk data on request by email, which the vendor states it provides at no cost
Hosting	Web app at search.ipaustralia.gov.au	Not stated
Made in	Australia	Not stated
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	Free search over 12 million+ US trademarks. The paid Global Comprehensive Search adds Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Community and WIPO, and filing is offered in 180+ countries.
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	Free word search with wildcards, owner search and an image search that takes an uploaded logo or a URL; comprehensive searches look for similar names, logos and slogans, including phonetic similarities
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	Image search results can be filtered by class, status and filing date, and the site lists trademarks by class
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	Comprehensive search reports in three packages (Federal, Federal and Common Law, Global), covering registered, unregistered and dead marks, with common law results from Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Wikipedia and Instagram and domain results; the page describes an attorney's opinion on the results and a video consultation
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	Brand Monitoring scans trademark databases for new applications similar or identical to a monitored mark and sends a report naming the applicant, class and filing jurisdiction. Multiple marks can be monitored.
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	Comprehensive search reports by email in PDF, RTF, Word, HTML or Excel
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	Bulk data on request by email; the vendor asks requesters to email rather than scrape the site
AI features	No	stated Yes
Deployment	Browser-based	Cloud (SaaS)
Support	Not stated	Email helpdesk, Phone
Onboarding	Documentation and knowledge base	Not stated

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The short version

Key Differences

Deployment Australian Trade Mark Search Browser-based Trademarkia Cloud (SaaS)
AI features Australian Trade Mark Search No Trademarkia Yes
API Australian Trade Mark Search Australian Trade Mark Search API with a quick search and a lookup by trade mark number, using OAuth 2.0 client credentials Trademarkia Bulk data on request by email, which the vendor states it provides at no cost
Registers and countries covered Australian Trade Mark Search Registered and pending Australian trade marks, including trade marks registered with the International Bureau designating Australia, which are found by their international registration number Trademarkia Free search over 12 million+ US trademarks. The paid Global Comprehensive Search adds Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Community and WIPO, and filing is offered in 180+ countries.
Word, phonetic and image search Australian Trade Mark 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 Trademarkia Free word search with wildcards, owner search and an image search that takes an uploaded logo or a URL; comprehensive searches look for similar names, logos and slogans, including phonetic similarities

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The trade-offs

Strengths and Limitations

Australian Trade Mark Search

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

Trademarkia

Strengths

Free search over 12 million+ US trademarks, including logo search by image upload or URL
Owner search and a daily lookup of newly filed trademarks
Search reports, filing and monitoring from the same law firm
Search reports in PDF, RTF, Word, HTML or Excel

Limitations

The free search covers US trademarks; Canada, the UK, the EU and WIPO come only with the $1,599 Global search
Standalone brand monitoring prices are quoted on request
The vendor states its site is for information only and not legal advice; advice comes with the paid services

Plans

Pricing

Australian Trade Mark Search

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Trademarkia

Free Trademark Search Free US trademarks, word, owner and logo search.
Federal Search $199 Per report. USPTO database, similar names, logos and slogans.
Federal and Common Law Search $299 Per report. Adds common law use on the internet and domain results.
Global Comprehensive Search $1,599 Per report. Adds Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Community and WIPO.
Trademark filing $599 Entry package plus government fees, with one month of monitoring, then $99 a quarter. Standard is $699 and Premium $879, Premium with a comprehensive federal and common law search and one year of monitoring.

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What users say

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Where this comes from

Australian Trade Mark Search https://ipaustralia.gov.au/trade-marks/search-existing-trade-marks · checked against the official source on 2026-11-08

Trademarkia https://www.trademarkia.com/ · checked against the official source on 2026-11-05

This table lists factual criteria taken from information the vendors publish themselves. For how we put it together, see the methodology.