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Does a trademark monitoring service only return results from the same class?

Written by Jan Buza

Co-founder of Trama

No, a trademark monitoring service doesn’t only return results from the same class. Most monitoring services allow you to set the scope of the search to outline filters such as only identical classes, adjacent classes, or all classes. Restricting results to your exact registered classes shortens the report, but sometimes misses relevant conflicts in closely related categories.

A standard setup typically returns results from the same and adjacent classes, ranked by relevance, with same-class results appearing first.

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