USPTO Trademark Search

Search USPTO trademarks for US brand clearance. Built for IP counsel, brand teams, researchers and AI agents.

⏰ Run this as a brand watch (recommended)

Every IP registry actor is a monitoring subscription, not a one-shot lookup. Schedule a weekly sweep and catch new filings as they land:

{
  "query": "Nike",
  "limit": 100
}

Weekly cron (0 8 * * 1) turns this into an always-on brand watch.

📊 What you get

Clean JSON, one record per trademark (full output has 16 fields):

• class — Class
• detail_url — Detail url
• filing_date — Filing date
• goods_services — Goods services
• image_url — Image url
• mark — Mark
• office — Office
• owner — Owner
• registration_date — Registration date
• registration_number — Registration number

Pricing: $0.05 per trademark (Pay-Per-Event) — about 20 trademarks per $1.

🤖 Use with AI agents

Point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it and run US trademark clearance searches on demand.

Sample agent prompt:

Watch for new US trademark filings matching my brand weekly and alert on conflicts.

Agentic payments (x402): Supports agentic payment via x402 — agents can call this actor with USDC, no API key required.

🔗 Related IP actors

Clear a mark across every major registry: EUIPO Trademarks, WIPO PatentScope, CNIPA China, Korea KIPO, Japan JPO

IP agent front door: Patents & Trademarks IP MCP

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Data from public intellectual-property registries.

UK clearance → uk-trademark-search (search the GB register post-Brexit).

Watch mode — monitor US filings on a schedule

Set Mode = Watch (monitor changes) and run this Actor on a schedule (daily or weekly) to turn a one-off US clearance search into ongoing monitoring. Watch mode:

• Remembers the marks it has already seen for each query (per optional Watch label), persisted across runs.
• On the first run it seeds a baseline silently — no alerts.
• On every later run it returns only the deltas: newly-filed marks and marks whose USPTO status changed (e.g. Pending → Published for Opposition → Registered, or → Abandoned). Quiet runs return an empty dataset.
• Statuses are normalised to a USPTO-native vocabulary (Registered, Pending, Published for Opposition, Opposition Pending, Notice of Allowance, Office Action, Suspended, Abandoned, Cancelled, Expired); status_change deltas carry the USPTO-native previous_status and status.
• Every record carries a composite similarity_score (text + token + phonetic) and a clearance_risk band.

Screening, not a legal opinion (rule #10). similarity_score and clearance_risk are string/phonetic screening signals — a candidate filter to help you triage, not a legal similarity opinion or clearance determination. Confirm anything material with trademark counsel.

Set up a recurring watch — Saved Task + Schedule + integration

1. Save a Task: set Mode = Watch, your brand in Search Query, territories (default US), an optional Watch label, then Save as a new task (e.g. Watch: <brand> — USPTO).
2. Schedule it: Schedules → Create schedule → add the task → pick a cadence (daily is typical). First run baselines; later runs return only changes.
3. Wire an alert: on the task's Integrations tab add email/Slack/webhook, triggered on run success with a non-empty dataset — so you're notified only when a mark actually changes.

A ready-to-clone example task, "Watch: Nike — USPTO", is published on this Actor's Saved tasks tab.

Watch-mode pricing

Watch mode adds one non-primary event, Watch check ($0.05 per watch-mode run), on top of the existing per-result and Actor-start pricing. Search mode is unaffected; quiet monitoring runs cost only Actor-start + one Watch check.

Watch your mark in the US and the EU

This Actor is the US half of a pair. For EU / EUIPO coverage use its sibling, EUIPO Trademark Search — EU Brand Clearance API — same watch-mode monitoring for EU trademark filings. Run both on a schedule to watch your brand across the two largest trademark systems in one workflow.