Trademarkia
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Legal |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Founder(s) | Raj Abhyanker, Dongxia Liu |
| Headquarters | 1580 W. El Camino Real, Ste. 10 Mountain View, CA 94040 |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Trademark, domain name, social brand management |
| Website | www.Trademarkia.com |
Trademarkia is an online technology platform launched in 2009 to automate and simply the search of trademark, domain and corporate legal records. It is one of the largest legal solutions technology platforms and websites on the Internet.[1][2] The company’s visual search engine allows users to search through more than 6 million trademarked logos, names, and slogans at no cost.[3]
The company was founded in 2009 by Raj Abhyanker, an intellectual property attorney, and Dongxia Liu, a web developer and entrepreneur. Abhyanker said their goal was “to organize legal information so that it's useful to average people.”[4]
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[edit] Services
[edit] Trademark search
Trademarkia’s online visual search engine searches the trademark database of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for U.S. trademarks filed since 1870, including expired trademarks. Trademarkia can also access historical data that is unavailable on the USPTO’s website.[1][3][5][6]
Trademarks are searchable by company, theme, product category, specific logo features and design elements, and filing attorney.[7]
[edit] Trademark application
Trademarkia can facilitate trademark applications with the USPTO, as well as in more than 100 countries around the world with a single form.[8]
Applications for the registration of a trademark in the United States are managed by attorneys at the firm of Raj Abhyanker P.C., an owner of Trademarkia.[5] Raj Abhyanker P.C. is, according to USPTO filing charts for 2010, the number one trademark law firm in the United States by filing volume.[9]
[edit] Trademark opposition
Attorneys in the Trademarkia network handle appeals to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board with regard to trademark opposition -- a legal process that allows anyone (another person or company) to oppose the registration of a trademark application. The trademark opposition process is meant to give third parties a chance to oppose an application that the USPTO would have otherwise registered.[10]
[edit] Domain name search and registry
The company’s search engine checks the United States’ Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) and the U.S. Trademark Electronic Records Retrieval (TARR) system. Domain names that are not already protected can be registered through Trademarkia.[11]
[edit] Social brand management
Trademarkia offers small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) a free brand username search that will alert them whenever their brand names are misused by another party. To help brand owners stop brand theft on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, eBay, YouTube and more than 500 other social networks, Trademarkia users can also request, for a fee, cease and desist letters to be issued to the offending party through attorneys in the Trademarkia network. In addition to monitoring and protecting their brand identities, businesses can hire Trademarkia to keep their social media stream active by regularly posting tweets, blogs and Facebook status updates on their behalf.[12][13]
[edit] Company growth
In 2011, Trademarkia became one of the five most popular legal websites on the internet in terms of user and page view traffic, according to Alexa.[14][15] Trademarkia has approximately 1.5 million unique visitors to its site every month, and approximately 3 million page views per month, as of December 2011.[3][4][15]
[edit] References
- ^ a b The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: Trademarkia Mountain View, California – One Million by One Million
- ^ Trademarkia page at CrunchBase
- ^ a b c Trademarkia Upends Trademark Filing Process, Angers IP Lawyers – Bloomberg
- ^ a b True Tales From Trademarkia: When Twitter Was A Christmas-Ornament Company – Fast Company
- ^ a b From The TC50 DemoPit, Trademarkia Simplifies Trademark Search – AOL TechCrunch
- ^ Trademarkia Adds Reviews To 140 Years Of Brands, Kicking Off Conversations And Controversy – Fast Company
- ^ Trademark Database Trademarkia Debuts Automatic Activity Notifications – AOL TechCrunch
- ^ Trademarkia Launches Social Brand Management Platform – eWeek
- ^ Smith, Adam. A Better Mousetrap? World Trademark Review, Aug./Sept. 2011, pp. 17-27.
- ^ Trademarkia website
- ^ Trademarkia Takes on GoDaddy With Domain Registry Debut – New York Times
- ^ Trademarkia Launches Social Brand Management Platform – eWeek
- ^ Trademarkia Helps You Find Social Media Impostors – VentureBeat
- ^ Trademarkia page at Alexa.com
- ^ a b Don’t Let Your Company’s Sound Be Stolen, Trademark It with Trademarkia – AOL TechCrunch
