Brand name clearance before you commit

Updated: 2026-08-28

Checks a name on all four fronts — trademarks, company names, domains and social media handles — before you print packaging and start advertising.

Successfully registering a company name does not mean you may use it as a trademark: the two systems sit with different authorities and different databases. Rebranding after you have market recognition is the most expensive outcome in this group.

• Who may perform this: Industrial property representative working with a branding team
• Timeline: Typically 3–7 working days for one batch of names
• How pricing works: Quoted by the number of candidate names and the markets to be checked.

Deliverables

• Clearance results across trademarks, company names, domains and social handles
• A risk ranking for each candidate name
• An action list to secure the chosen name immediately

What you provide

• The list of names under consideration
• Your line of business and target markets

Contents

• Copyright, trademark or patent — which one
• Trademarks — the procedure that matters most to businesses
• Startups and IP — the cheapest steps, most often skipped