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Before you file an international application through the Madrid System, a clearance search tells you whether your brand is genuinely free to register in the countries you plan to designate. Our team at Brealant searches WIPO's Madrid Monitor and Global Brand Database alongside the national registers of your target markets, so you designate with confidence.
What an International Trademark Search Involves
A Madrid System search checks WIPO's International Register (via Madrid Monitor and the Global Brand Database) together with the national registers of each country you're considering, for marks identical or confusingly similar to yours.
Purpose and Function of the Search
Because each designated country examines your mark under its own national law after the international registration is recorded, a search flags likely conflicts in specific markets before you commit to designating them — and before you pay for that coverage.
Protecting Your Filing Strategy
A thorough search helps Brealant recommend which countries to designate, how to word your goods and services, and whether your basic mark is strong enough to support the international application.
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Contact
Reach out to Brealant, your Madrid System filing partner, to discuss the mark and the countries you're considering.
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Search
Our team searches WIPO's Madrid Monitor and Global Brand Database, plus the national registers of your target designated countries.
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Quote
Receive a service quote tailored to the number of countries and depth of search you need.
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Pay
Proceed with secure payment for the selected search service.
File
Brealant compiles the findings into a clear, written clearance report covering every market reviewed.
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Wait
Our team finalises its analysis of similarity, class overlap, and country-by-country risk.
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Response
You receive your clearance report with a plain-English recommendation on which countries to designate.
The Madrid System itself has no single unified register you can search once and rely on for every country — WIPO records the international registration, but each designated Contracting Party examines it against its own national register. Searching both the WIPO-level record and the key national registers in your target markets is the clearest way to gauge your chances before you designate.
A search protects more than your WIPO filing fee — it protects the individual designation fees you'd otherwise spend on countries where your mark is unlikely to clear. Brealant's search process gives you the evidence to designate, or rethink your branding, market by market, rather than guessing.
A search significantly reduces risk, but the Madrid System's structure creates limits worth understanding before you file
No Absolute Guarantee
No search can guarantee a designated country's national office won't issue a provisional refusal during its own examination.
Country-by-Country Reality
A search that clears one designated country says nothing about your prospects in another — each applies its own law.
Unregistered Rights
Common-law or unregistered rights used in a target country can be harder to identify with certainty through a register search alone.
Pending Applications
Very recently filed applications may not yet be visible in a country's public register at the time of search.
Doesn't Replace National Examination
A clear search reduces risk but cannot bind any designated country's IP office to accept your mark.
Brealant explains these limits clearly in every search report, so you know exactly what comfort the search gives you in each market.
A thorough Madrid System search reviews multiple layers across every market you're evaluating. Our search covers
Word Marks
Identical and phonetically or visually similar brand names and taglines in WIPO's records and your target countries' national registers.
Logos & Devices
Graphical and combined marks that could be considered confusingly similar in the countries you're considering.
Class Overlap
Marks registered in the same or related Nice classification classes as your goods or services in each target market.
Basic Mark Strength
Whether your home application or registration is solid enough to support an international application built on top of it.
Partnering with Brealant means every layer of risk is checked before you commit to designating a country.
A search moves considerably faster than the international application itself. It typically involves
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Briefing
You provide the mark, the goods/services, and the countries you're considering, generally within a day of first contact.
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Searching
Brealant runs the WIPO-level and relevant national register checks, usually completed within a few business days.
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Analysis
Our team reviews similarity, class overlap, and country-specific risk across every market checked.
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Reporting
You receive the finished clearance report and a designation recommendation.
Most international searches are completed within about a week of instruction, though this can extend with the number of countries reviewed.
Search costs are modest compared to paying designation fees for countries where your mark is unlikely to clear
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Brealant offers a preliminary check of WIPO's Madrid Monitor and Global Brand Database to flag obvious conflicts.
A detailed written report covering your target designated countries' national registers is offered as a scoped professional fee, based on how many markets are reviewed.
These costs are a small, worthwhile investment set against the far higher cost of designating countries where your mark is later refused.
Once your search is complete, Brealant can move straight into preparing your basic mark and international application, so the momentum from a clear result isn't lost. Where a target country shows risk, we'll advise on alternative wording, branding, or a revised designation list to keep your global filing strategy on track.
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No, WIPO does not require a search before filing, but skipping this step significantly increases the risk of a provisional refusal in one or more designated countries.
Yes. We build a single search scope covering every country you're considering designating, so you get one consolidated report.
Not in the sense of a single searchable database that predicts every country's outcome — WIPO records the international registration, but each designated country examines it against its own national register, so a proper search checks both levels.
No search can guarantee that, since each designated country's office may raise its own objections, but a clearance search removes the most common cause of refusal: conflicting prior marks.
Brealant offers a preliminary WIPO-level check, with a scoped fee for a full multi-country clearance report — we quote this before you commit, based on the countries involved.
No. A search can be run before you've even filed your home application, so the results can shape both your basic mark strategy and which countries you go on to designate.
A representation of the mark, the goods or services you'll cover (ideally by Nice class), and the list of countries you're considering designating.
Yes. Since only Madrid member countries can be designated internationally, we run those through the Madrid-focused report, but we can also arrange separate national searches for non-member countries you're targeting directly.
Registers change continuously, so a result is most reliable in the weeks immediately after the report — if you delay filing significantly, we recommend refreshing the search before you commit.
Yes. We translate the results into practical recommendations — which countries to designate, which to hold back on, and whether any wording changes would reduce risk.
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