Performing your own Trademark Search can be very simple if you follow these steps.

The procedure for a trademark search has two steps:

1. Conducting the search
To perfrom a Trademark Search visit USPTO

2. Reviewing and evaluating the references discovered in step 1

Here’s how to get to work:
Conducting the Trademark Search
If you wish to conduct your own search, please see 3 Steps for Performing a Trademark Search. If you prefer to use a professional search service, you may still want to conduct an Internet, URL, and Federal search (pre-screening) yourself. By using your keywords, you will quickly determine if someone is using or has registered the mark before you.

Using a Professional US Trademark Search Service
A U.S. trademark search service performs an electronic search of US trademarks in the USPTO, state trademarks in all fifty states, Internet uses, industry uses, and common law uses on your behalf.

All information required to compile a search letter to request a trademark search is set forth above in Trademark Search Letter Requesting a Professional Search. After a professional trademark search service is complete, you will receive a binder listing existing US federal, state, Internet, and common law uses of your intended mark and/or other similar marks.

Be sure to download my Inventor Start Kit ™ to make the entire process (from start to finish) even easier.