It depends on timing, countries and the products and services that need to be covered. As a rule of thumb, UK, Community Trade Mark and International Trade Mark are often the best starting point to get a feel of what's out there and whether it's worth taking forward.

We work with you to define the search requirements - or as we might say, develop the Intellectual Property Strategy - there may be specific issues around culture, language or location that we can help with. Call us to get a quick idea of how we would approach your project.

It depends on timing, countries and the products and services that need to be covered. It will depend on where the client's business is based, which countries they operate in and the number of trade mark classes their products and services fall into.

Call us to get a quick idea of how we would approach your project.

Yes. We can test the list of names for trade mark infringement to eliminate the 'no-hope' and problematic names early on saving time, money and red faces!

Call us to ask more about our Scorecard service.

Yes. Our Visionary searches are designed for designers - price and timing depends on how popular the search area is - call us to find out more.

Yes - we can search…… Give us a call to discuss.

Conducting a search engine check on a name is no indication of whether a name is available for use. While it can show that there is a business already using it in the same industry, you would not know what the position actually is until you do more precise and exacting searches. Call us for help.

We can provide a clear process for developing names and checking all aspects of name and identity development. Call us and we can give indicative costs - but these will be necessarily ballpark until we have a detailed brief. Any detailed response requires a reasonable amount of time to prepare.

We love to develop close working relationships with our clients, covered by standing NDAs, to bring best practice and value to all your projects.

We work with language professionals to provide a 'disaster check' on names. This involves our language professional commenting on pronunciation, similarity to other words, negative meaning and other associations.

Costs depend on the number of names and which countries. Timing is on average four to five working days. Around major public holidays and over the summer this may be longer.

Yes we can - do call to discuss

We will give our opinion based on the information you provide and our searches and analysis. We quote by the job and typically charges are from £500.

We can give your initial feedback whether we think logo has the required degree of graphic distinctiveness to meet the requirements for trade mark registration. However, to tell you whether it conflicts with existing trade marks we need to conduct an availability search. Cost and timing for this depends on the mark itself, the countries we need to search and the trade mark classes we need to cover. Once we have this we can provide costs.

Yes we can! We work with many agencies on naming and have been naming names for years. Let's have a discussion to see what you need and how we can help – in the strictest confidence!

Yes we can! If you are an agency we can help you define your own brand, or we can work with you as a consultant to help define your clients brand. If you are a primary client, we can work within your existing agency team to intensify their expertise and help sequence brand definition within the brand development workflow.