The pre-filing knockout check shouldn’t mean six registry tabs and copy-paste. IPBases queries USPTO, EUIPO, WIPO Madrid and commercial APIs from inside the system — where the filing happens next.
Before a firm files, someone checks: does a confusingly similar mark already exist in the target registry? In most practices that means bouncing between the USPTO site, EUIPO’s tools, WIPO’s Madrid records and a browser full of national registry tabs — then copying findings into the client email by hand. IPBases builds a Global TM Search screen into the system itself, so the pre-filing check happens where the filing happens.
The search screen queries official and commercial sources through configurable providers:
Each engine is admin-configured with its own credentials, can be toggled on and off, and has a built-in test action so you know a provider works before an attorney relies on it.
Built-in search shines at three jobs: the knockout check before quoting a filing (catching identical or near-identical marks in seconds), verification of your own records against the registry (do our numbers and statuses match the office?), and quick client-question answering — “is this name taken in the EU?” — without leaving the client’s screen. Honesty matters here: a knockout search is not a full availability opinion. Comprehensive clearance — phonetic similarity, device marks, common-law rights — remains attorney work, often with specialist databases like TMview alongside. The built-in search removes the routine 80%, so the expert 20% gets the time it deserves.
The same instinct powers internal search: the global search bar reaches across clients, trademarks and invoices at once, so “that mark for the Dubai client with the opposition” is one query, not three screens. External registries and your own portfolio register answer from the same place.
Configurable registry providers, knockout checks and record verification — built into the same system that runs the portfolio.
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