FAQs

4 02, 2016

What is your turnaround time?

2016-03-07T06:41:05-05:00

Our turnaround time is 2-5 business days, with the vast majority of our searches taking 3-4. Our turnaround time is dependent upon our backlog. If you require your search sooner, we may be able to accommodate you with a 24 hour rush service which has an additional charge of $100. Please call our offices at 201-825-1060 [...]

What is your turnaround time?2016-03-07T06:41:05-05:00
4 02, 2016

What is the end product you provide to me?

2016-04-21T19:56:13-04:00

You can download a PDF copy of our Sample Search Here. You will receive a full trademark search report. It will be broken down into Federal, State and various Common Law sections in alphabetical order. This will include all currently registered, pending, abandoned, canceled and expired trademarks and service marks, both identical and similar to [...]

What is the end product you provide to me?2016-04-21T19:56:13-04:00
7 03, 2016

How can you charge so much less and still do top quality work?

2016-12-12T13:28:01-05:00

The industry leader, Thomson Reuters® is a great company that has been around for a very long time. They do excellent work and have the best data in the industry. That's why we purchase all of our Federal and State data from them. Like any large publically traded company which has been around for a long time, they have many old [...]

How can you charge so much less and still do top quality work?2016-12-12T13:28:01-05:00
5 03, 2016

Did you change your website? Are you the same company? What’s different?

2016-12-12T13:28:01-05:00

Yes we are all the same people you've worked with for the past 20 years and yes we did change our website! Thanks for noticing. We're very excited to bring you our new and improved website. The new site allows you to add as many searches as you'd like to your cart and all customers can now [...]

Did you change your website? Are you the same company? What’s different?2016-12-12T13:28:01-05:00
4 02, 2016

What are your credentials?

2016-12-12T13:28:01-05:00

Creative Trademark Services has been searching trademarks for over 20 years and officially started our business on the internet in 1997. Both our office manager and trademark manager have over 20 years of experience in the field and personally create our search strategy for every single one of our searches. Our principal owner, is the [...]

What are your credentials?2016-12-12T13:28:01-05:00
5 02, 2016

Where do you acquire your data?

2016-03-02T21:06:23-05:00

Creative Trademark Services utilizes the highest quality data available as demanded by our customers. Attorneys will only accept Federal & State results searched via Thomson Reuters® subscription services; we are proud to say that every single search we have conducted since 1997, has been completed using Thomson data.

Where do you acquire your data?2016-03-02T21:06:23-05:00
17 03, 2016

Do you have any free trademark search information that can help me?

2016-03-17T23:06:24-04:00

We have a great FREE report that we are making available to our website visitors called "How to read a trademark research report in plain English" This report will explain how to read and understand a comprehensive full trademark search and it also has some great basic information on Trademarks as well. To read the entire report, [...]

Do you have any free trademark search information that can help me?2016-03-17T23:06:24-04:00
4 02, 2016

I need a logo, design or trademark image search?

2017-08-15T13:50:51-04:00

When we do a Full Comprehensive or Federal search  we can provide you with all the images that have been filed for records we retrieve in the Federal database. We are NOT searching via your image in this case. We are only providing you with any images that may be filed with whatever records we find during a normal [...]

I need a logo, design or trademark image search?2017-08-15T13:50:51-04:00
4 02, 2016

Do you check all classes when conducting a search, or just the class of my proposed mark?

2016-03-02T20:59:54-05:00

We conduct our searches in all classes and categories, not just the class of your proposed mark. We do request a description of how you plan to use your mark, but that is only to allow us to do a better job in creating a concise report. You will ALWAYS get all of the results, for any [...]

Do you check all classes when conducting a search, or just the class of my proposed mark?2016-03-02T20:59:54-05:00
4 02, 2016

Do you only check for exact matches, or do you also check variations?

2016-03-02T21:00:39-05:00

We research not only your exact mark, but we investigate variations, similarities, truncations, homonyms, spelling differences, and language translations of your proposed mark, as they may all cause a potential conflict with your mark.

Do you only check for exact matches, or do you also check variations?2016-03-02T21:00:39-05:00