Word Similarity
My Ordered Searches
Mission
Users can order offline searches from the Fovea IP team. Our analysts will run these searches for the users and deliver a search report which will be sent by email to the user(s) and will be available on their Fovea IP account for review.
Ordered searches can be reviewed on the Fovea IP platform with all the analysis and reporting functionalities available. The reports can be downloaded from the platform, can be shared across users and can also be shared externally with outside counsels, for example.
Analyze your search results
Go through your results quickest via the platform, add comments, tags, and find out the other options to review your searches.
Toolbox
Link to PTO
Google check
Highlighter
Goods and Services
Oppositions
International check
Owner infographics
Owner litigiousness/aggressiveness
Tags, flags & comments
Customize your tags & flags
Build a comment library
My Ordered watches
Mission
Fovea IP offers watching services across trademarks, company names, domain names and owner names. The watch reports are delivered to the users by email, and are also available on the Fovea IP platform in the Ordered Watches section.
The purpose of Fovea IP’s trademark watch service is to identify new trademark publications that are identical or similar to the trademark watched. Also, whenever a new watch is activated, we inform you of any past identical/similar publication for which the opposition deadline is still ongoing.
Analyze your watch result
Go through your results quickest via the platform, add comments, tags, and find out the other options to review your watches.
Toolbox
Link to PTO
Google check
Highlighter
Goods and Services
Oppositions
International check
Owner infographics
Owner litigiousness/aggressiveness
Tags, flags & comments
Customize your tags & flags
Build a comment library
Type of Online searches
Multicriteria
Mission
Multicriteria is a module designed to manually search across the selected databases. There is no underlying automation or artificial intelligence, the users defines the search strategy to be applied.
The Multicriteria search module allows the user to search across more than 40 criteria: owner, representative, number, date, type of mark, etc.
- Identical searches
- Custom searches with wildcards and Boolean operators
Important:
A search on Trademark Name ROCK will allow you to retrieve trademarks ROCK or containing ROCK as a standalone word, such as ROCK THIS PARTY. It will not allow you to retrieve ROCKS or ROCKY or ROCKABILLY.
Please see following section “Wildcards and Boolean operators” for more insight into search strategies.
Build a search strategy
Registers
Search criteria
Wildcards and Boolean operators
Word Similarity
Mission
This module allows users to run word mark searches with the help of an automated search strategy which is accessible to the user and editable by the user. Wildcard characters are not supported in this module.
This module is solely dedicated to availability searching. Other types of searches (owner, numbers, dates, etc) are not supported and have to be run through the Multicriteria module.
The Word Similarity module includes 3 levels of strategy: identical phonetic, extended and similarity.
The system will adapt the search strategy based on the selected level of similarity chosen by the user, and also based on the nature of the trademark searched: number of letters, number of words, invented or existing word.
Build a search strategy
Registers
Available strategies
Related classes
IA Figurative
Mission
This module allows user to run a Figurative search on trademark databases using our proprietary Image-recognition Technology. This search doesn’t allow for any Vienna codes. The search will be purely based on the image (and classes/registers).
The search will be run independently from colors.
IA Industrial designs
Mission
This module allows users to run an Industrial Design search using our proprietary Image-recognition technology. This technology facilitates the pre-selection of relevant results among registered designs.
The search will be run across active and inactive registered designs.
Extremely important: the Image technology can be very sensitive especially for designs (3D). Therefore, it is critical to use images of the best possible quality, with a good contrast and no disruptive elements around the object to be searched.
User should preferably use drawing(s) and photograph(s).
User can upload several views of the same object (up to 7 views). These views should have an added value to the search.
IA App Stores
Mission
This module allows users to run Image searches across mobile applications stores. These searches can come as a Common Law check, a complement to a figurative search across registered trademarks.
Multi candidates
Mission
Performing several searches in one go on different databases (Trademarks, Pharmaceuticals, Companies and domains). Allows you to directly see if the candidates get exact hits.
FOVEA IP’s Multi-Candidates module streamlines trademark screening with unmatched speed and global coverage. Ideal for pharma, branding, and high-volume searches, it allows users to screen up to 150 names at once across trademarks, pharma registers, company names, and domain extensions.
By instantly eliminating unavailable options, it accelerates decision-making, reduces wasted effort, and minimizes late-stage conflicts. With a single click, you gain access to 196 trademark, 86 pharma, 76 company, and 1,521 domain name extensions worldwide ensuring clarity, confidence, and efficiency in every naming decision.
Pharma
Mission
Performing Pharma in Use searches associated or not with trademarks. Get instant Pharma Scan for your pharmaceutical hits.
Alerts
Mission
This alert allows you to set up a monitoring on search results.
The system allows you to be informed, at the frequency of your choice (weekly, monthly etc) of any new search results matching your search criteria.
Ex: competition watch: launch a search on an owner and set up an alert to be informed of any new entry in our database by this owner.
Ex: product watch: launch a search on a specific product and set up an alert to be informed of any new entry in our database for this product.
This alert allows you to monitor any changes in a specific record:
– Change in Registration number
– Change in Registration date
– Change in Expiration date
– Change in Status
– Change in Owner
– Change in Representative
– Change in Renewal dates
– Change in Publication dates
Australian register:
– Change in History info
Aripo register extra:
– Change in Aripo claimed countries
Wipo register:
– Change in WO claimed countries
– Change in national publication
Other online features
Hit count
The “Hit count” allows you to see how many results you get for each jurisdictions searched. We also display a hit count based on the Regions when, for example, you perform a Worldwide search.
Customized your exports
After reviewing your results, you can export a standard or customized report, export the hits in different format and languages.
My Folders
The Folders allow users to save their searches in specific files/sub-files and therefore create their own tree structure of saved searches and records.
Specific records and searches can be saved in the Folders. Folders can be shared between users.
Analytics
Mission
This module was designed to allow you to analyze big data sets in seconds.
Whether you want to analyze competition, find a new agent overseas, identify new business opportunities: the Analytics can help you answer any question you may have such as: who are the top trademark filers in my region/in a specific industry/country?
What is the trademark filing activity of my main competitor (owner or representative)? Who are the biggest trademark agents in a given register? What were the filing trends in 2024?
Retrieve my Online searches
The system automatically keeps your last 25 searches. If you want to work on the results later on, don’t forget to save your search!
Saved searches
Combined searches
Searches history
Strategies
Settings & others
This page allows you to set up your account for general purposes, set your search/watch parameters, set new customisez reports…
Build a search strategy
There are 3 levels of search strategies available. Move the slider to the appropriate level.
Identical phonetic will include any alphabetic and phonetic identical record in the searched and related classes.
Extended will include the same results as the identical phonetic search, and will also include a couple of additional algorithms (see search strategy for full details). This is an “in-between” search.
The Similarity level is the most comprehensive search available on the platform. The search strategy will include a much larger list of algorithms.
Clicking on the cogwheel next to the trademark searched will allow you to access the search strategy in details. The system is totally transparent in this regard.
The search strategy screen is divided into 2 sides.
- On the left: the “Important words”, where the system defines the strong element(s) of the trademark to which the full algorithms (depending on the chosen strategy level) should be applied.
- On the right: the “Words in a dictionary”, or “weaker elements”, to which a narrower search strategy is applied.
This strategy can be edited by the user. Don’t hesitate to contact us for assistance.
SELECT THE REGISTERS
Once you logged in to the platform and you have selected the most suitable module (Multi-criteria, Word similarity), the best way is to directly select the registers on which you want to perform the search.
Select the desired databases and then the registers/group of registers by ticking the corresponding boxes.
By ticking a national country that is part of the Madrid Agreement and Protocol, the system will automatically select the EUIPO/WIPO when applicable.
If you need to limit the results for the WIPO register designated the selected countries, please select the WIPO (limited to designated countries) box.
Trademarks and Pharmaceutical Databases, identified with this symbol 
, can be searched together in a single request.
Select the Trademark databases, then click on the Pharmaceutical option and select the databases. Click on OK to validate.
DISPLAY THE STRATEGY
Identical Phonetic search
The system applies a very limited number of questions. The strategy on “Words in a dictionary” is also narrow:
We only search on both words together for “Words in a dictionary”.
The number of results is straight forward to the point:
Extended search
The system applies a number of questions larger than identical but less than similar (the “Phonetics” and “Alphabetic” questions are a bit more extended). We can see that the strategy on “Words in a dictionary” changed a bit:
We search on both words individually and together for “Words in a dictionary”.
The number of results begins to rise:
Similarity
The system applies a very large number of questions (such as first and last characters in common) but also adds the “Phonetics” for the main/important terms. The strategy on “Words in a dictionary” is also wilder:
We search on both words individually and together (+ midfix on words) for “Words in a dictionary”.
The number of results is very high:
Our system identifies the existing terms, applies fewer algorithms on these terms qualified as “weaker” in terms of weighting in the brand.
If needed, you can add more “Important words” and/or “Words in a dictionary” into the online search.
Just insert the words you want to add and then press Enter.
Related classes:
Any search run through the Word Similarity module (all 3 levels) will include an identical phonetic search in the related classes. The list of applicable related classes can be accessed by clicking on the cogwheel. See top right of the screen. The list of related classes can be changed by the user if needed.
