Best case, your trademark application is rejected and you go back to the drawing board.
Worst case, you risk:
Either way, it’s expensive, disruptive, and entirely avoidable with the right upfront work.
You can, but it’s not enough.
Trademark clearance isn’t just about finding identical matches. It requires analyzing:
This kind of legal risk analysis is typically performed by trademark lawyers–at high law firm rates.
Building a brand without clearance is one of the most common (and costly) mistakes you can make.
A proper clearance helps you:
Skipping clearance can lead to lost time, lost money, and lost brand equity.
Trademark clearance is the process of figuring out whether your brand name, logo, or slogan is available to use and register, before you invest in it.
That means: searching trademark databases and other sources to identify existing marks that may be similar in name, appearance, meaning, or commercial impression.
A trademark is a name, logo, phrase, or design that identifies your brand and distinguishes it from others in the market. It’s the legal foundation of your brand identity—and often one of your most valuable assets.
A comprehensive clearance usually includes:
It’s not just a database search—it’s about legal judgment and understanding risk.
No.
Clearance is a risk assessment, not a guarantee. It helps you understand:
From there, you (and your lawyer) decide how to proceed.
No.
Purchasing a clearance search report does not create an attorney-client relationship and does not include representation before the USPTO or any court. The report is an informational product.
Most tools offer (i) affordable clearance, but with no legal judgment or accountability or (ii) in-depth analysis, but at sky-high rates.
With Thanks Mom, AI handles the heavy lifting (search + analysis), and lawyers-in-the-middle validate results and make final recommendations.
Thanks Mom goes further by:
You’re getting actual legal services–not just data.
Thanks Mom is built for:
(If you need full legal representation in a trademark matter, we'll point you to a different starting place.)
Thanks Mom is a platform that delivers fast, comprehensive trademark clearance, combining AI-powered analysis with real trademark lawyer oversight.
It helps brands, creators, and lawyers:
For the retention period set in our Terms & Conditions. We recommend downloading your PDF when you receive it.
Once your report is delivered, the matter is complete. If you have a clarifying question that calls for additional attorney work, we'll ask you to start a new matter or refer you to outside counsel - purchasing a clearance search does not include ongoing legal advice.
No. The report is a point-in-time clearance search to help you make an informed decision. It is not legal advice, and it is not a guarantee that the USPTO will register your mark or that no third party will assert a claim against your use of it.
Yes - start a new order for the additional class, or contact support and we'll help you. We don't charge differently for add-ons vs. originals.
Two ways: by email with a secure, time-limited link to the PDF, and in your Thanks Mom customer portal where it's available for re-download for the retention period in our Terms & Conditions.
Each report includes:
The report covers your mark, the goods or services you specified, and the jurisdictions you selected. It includes search results, a risk assessment, and citations. The exact scope is described in your order confirmation.
Our customer commitment is 2 business days from when your intake information is complete (your mark name and your goods and services / class selection) and your order passes our internal conflict screening. If anything will push delivery past 2 business days, we will email you proactively.
Business hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm U.S. Eastern time, excluding U.S. federal holidays.
From the Thanks Mom site, choose your search type, enter your mark and the goods or services, choose your jurisdictions, and check out. We'll email you a confirmation right away.
Try it out:
With Thanks Mom, you can:
We do not. We work hard to deliver within our 2 business day customer commitment, and we'll proactively notify you if we anticipate a delay. If a delay causes a real problem for you, contact support and we'll review.
Refunds are governed by our Terms & Conditions. The most common refund situations are: we cannot proceed because of a conflict of interest (full refund), or there's a clear quality issue we cannot remedy. Email support if you have a concern.
Yes.
By automating much of the manual work, and introducing legal judgment at the moments Thanks Mom delivers:
Pricing is shown at checkout. The base fee covers a search in one class of goods or services. If you need more than one class (an additional fee applies per added class) the system will calculate it before you pay.
Only Jayaram Law team members and the licensed attorney on our panel assigned to your matter. We do not share your information for marketing or sell it to third parties.
Information you provide is treated as confidential. Data handling, retention, and the list of subprocessors are described in our Privacy Policy and Data Processing Addendum. Panel attorneys assigned to your matter are bound by written confidentiality obligations.
It usually clears within a few hours during business hours. If your order needs additional review, we'll email you within one business day with next steps.
We will email you to either ask for a clarifying detail or, if we cannot proceed, decline the matter and refund your order in full. We do not share the specific reason because conflicts often involve confidential information about other clients.
Jayaram Law is a law firm. Before we accept any matter, we screen it for conflicts of interest with our existing clients and matters. This is a standard ethical obligation and protects everyone involved.
By email at the address shown in your order confirmation and customer portal. We do not currently offer phone or chat support.
We monitor the support inbox during business hours and aim to reply the same business day.