Markify – Free Search for Similar Trademarks and Domain Names
http://markify.com/

They started Markify because they believe it should be easy to start a business. One of the first challenges you face as an entrepreneur or brand owner is to find a new name for your business, product or service. Finding a good name has always been hard. But this has become increasingly difficult today due to the crowded name situation – both regarding domain names and trademarks. To simplify the initial naming process for you, they developed Markify, a name-screening tool. With Markify, you can quickly and easily check any name to see if anybody is already operating under a similar trademark – in one or many markets. So you can avoid them in your search for a new domain name or trademark. Otherwise you might have to change your name later. A risk no business should take. Their name availability search is different in couple of ways: 1) They use a new type of similarity algorithm that is very accurate. It identifies most “killers” (potential name problems) without a lot of “noise” (names no court would find similar). 2) They conduct a search of a wide range of databases. This includes trademark data from USPTO (US), CTM (European Union) and domain name data for .com and .net; and 3) The search is fast, easy and free. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™.