Monitoring and alerts
A two-month window — and notices now go straight to you
Two things changed at once under the revised Trademark Law, and both make do-it-yourself monitoring unsafe. First, the publication window shrank from three months to two, so there is one month less to file an opposition — by the time a lookalike shows up in your marketplace feed, the window is usually closed. Second, CNIPA now serves documents directly on the applicant instead of the agent: refusal and defence notices land in your own inbox or registered address, and if that address changed or nobody reads that mailbox, the deadline passes without you knowing. Monitoring closes both gaps — moving discovery back inside the publication window so one opposition stops a copycat at the start, rather than litigating after it registers.
- Your brand has recognition and you worry about free-riding, copying or imitation
- You have already been squatted once and want early warning next time
- You need to watch core classes plus related ones you cannot check manually
- You run e-commerce or franchises and need to spot lookalike listings
- Notices now go straight to you, and you worry about missing a refusal or opposition deadline
- Your registered address or contact email has changed and documents may not reach you
- The marks to monitor (multiple supported)
- Core classes plus related classes to watch
- Registration numbers where registered, or application numbers / scope of use
- The mailbox and registered address that receive official documents, so we can prompt you to check
Run the free tools first — they will tell you whether the problem is prior marks, absolute grounds, or something else.
A consultant checks the mark’s status first, then calls you with an assessment and a quote.
Questions about this service
One month is one full cycle of discovery, assessment and preparing opposition evidence. In practice many oppositions are decided at the end of the second month — that margin is gone. There are only two responses: move discovery earlier through continuous monitoring, or give up the opposition and pursue invalidation instead, which is far slower and more expensive.
They are now served directly on the applicant, not copied to the agent. Refusal, opposition-defence and cancellation notices may reach only your own mailbox or registered address. If that address was never updated or nobody reads the mailbox, the deadline passes unseen — and in most procedures a missed deadline means losing the right outright. What we do is reconcile official status against your portfolio and prompt you to check when something changes; we cannot replace official service.
New filings, publication, and post-registration changes (assignment, cancellation, invalidation, renewal). Publication matters most — it is the only low-cost window to stop a mark.
No. You get an assessment first: similarity, goods overlap, likely success, cost and timeline. The point of monitoring is that nothing slips through, not that we spend your money for you.
Occasional searching is a spot check, often months apart. With a two-month window, spot checks will almost certainly miss it. Monitoring compares continuously and alerts you on discovery.
Yes, subscribed per country or region. Usually we start with the markets you actually sell in rather than all 190 at once.
You may also need
Copyright registration
A trademark alone leaves gaps — copyright covers them
Opposition defence / filing
Someone opposed your mark — or someone is squatting on your brand
Cancellation / invalidation
Remove a blocking cited mark, or invalidate a bad-faith registration
Assignment / change / renewal
Change of owner, change of details, keeping it alive
Use-evidence retention
Not only against cancellation — the foundation for enforcement and well-known status