Here are my top 18 trademark resources for 2018, presented in no particular order:
- TSDR – for viewing status, details, documents, history, and more for any USPTO application or registration. More details here.
- TESS – Trademark Electronic Search System, for searching USPTO trademark records
- TTABvue – for looking up status and records in Trademark Trial and Appeal Board cases
- sofTMware® – free tool provided by Erik M Pelton & Associates for tracking and monitoring the status of USPTO trademark applications and registrations. The sofTMware® tool can be used to monitor a single application or registration – or hundreds of them. It can be used with your own records, or those owned by others..
- TTABlog® – the latest in Trademark Trial and Appeal Board case law, with a very useful “search” function
- TMView – great tool for some international searching
- TMEP (Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure) – all the core trademark application rules, procedure and law in one place
- Google – for finding just about anything
- Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) – for trademark application filings, responses, and registration renewals
- Trademark Fee Information – USPTO fee details
- USPTO trademark ID Manual – the description of goods and/or services is a vital part of any trademark filings
- Create a PDF with up to 25 USPTO trademark registration certificates at once http://tmportal.uspto.gov/external/portal/registrationcert
- TTAB Manual of Procedure – all the TTAB rules and procedure
- Design Code Manual and information – for searching images at the USPTO
- WIPO Madrid international trademark filing system main page – for checking international filing fees, member countries, and more
- Internet Archive – for researching the history of most websites
- DomainTools – for researching WHOIS and other domain information
- TESS Help Menu – detailed information about boolean and other searches, and search fields, for the USPTO trademark database
