How much does trademark monitoring cost in the UK?

TMGuard offers trademark monitoring from £99/year (£74 net after tax relief). This includes weekly UK journal scanning, email alerts with risk scoring, and renewal reminders. Business plans add EU monitoring from £249/year. Professional plans add US monitoring from £499/year. Traditional solicitor monitoring services typically cost £500-2,000/year.

How do I oppose a trademark in the UK?

You have 2 months from the publication date in the UK Trade Marks Journal to file an opposition. First, file a TM7a (free) to extend your deadline by 1 month. Then file a TM7 (£100) with your grounds for opposition. TMGuard guides you through your options at each step.

When do UK trademarks need to be renewed?

UK trademarks must be renewed every 10 years from the filing date. Renewal costs £200 for one class plus £50 for each additional class. TMGuard sends escalating reminders at 12, 6, 3, and 1 month before renewal.

TMGuard is a UK, EU and US trademark monitoring platform for small businesses. It scans 21 million+ trademarks across the UK IPO, EUIPO and USPTO registers, alerts you to conflicts, guides you through opposition options, and tracks renewal deadlines - from £99/year.

A TM7a is a Notice of Threatened Opposition filed with the UK IPO. It is free to file and extends your opposition deadline by one month without committing to full opposition.

How many trademarks does TMGuard monitor?

TMGuard monitors over 21 million trademarks across three official registers: 3.88 million UK marks from the IPO (records from 1876), 3.14 million EU marks from EUIPO (including 446,888 Madrid Protocol designations), and 14 million US marks from the USPTO (records from 1823). All data is sourced directly from official registers and updated daily.

Can TMGuard monitor trademarks in the US?

Yes. TMGuard monitors the USPTO register with 14 million+ marks dating back to 1823. US monitoring is included on Business plans and above. The US opposition window is 30 days from publication, extendable to 120 days.

21 million trademarks, 3 registers, 1 platform

15 April 2026·3 min read

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TMGuard now monitors over 21 million trademarks across three official registers. If you own a brand and trade in the UK, Europe, or the United States, your trademark is now checked against the same data that enterprise platforms charge £5,000 or more per year to access.

Here is what that means in practice.

Three registers, one search

When you run a search on TMGuard or set up monitoring for your brand, we check it against:

The UK IPO register. 3,880,454 marks dating back to 1876. Updated daily via direct SFTP access to the Intellectual Property Office. This includes every active, expired, and withdrawn trademark the IPO has on record. Coverage: approximately 99% of the full register.

The EUIPO register. 3,137,850 marks including 446,888 Madrid Protocol international designations. Coverage: 99.4% of the full register. Records from the first day EUIPO accepted applications in 1996 through to today.

The USPTO register. 14,007,389 marks from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The oldest record in our database dates to 1823. Coverage: 87% of the full register (approximately 16 million total), with new daily filings added automatically.

Combined: 21,025,693 trademarks. Zero duplicates. 100% normalised for matching. Updated daily from all three sources.

Why three registers matter

Most UK businesses think about trademark protection as a UK issue. It is not.

If you sell online, your products reach customers in Europe and the United States whether you planned it or not. A marketplace listing, an Instagram shop, or a wholesale enquiry from overseas can create commercial exposure in jurisdictions where someone else may already own your brand name.

The reverse is also true. A company in Wyoming can file for your exact brand name at the USPTO for a completely different product category. Without monitoring, you would not know until it was too late.

That is exactly what happened to one of our own brands. TMGuard detected two separate applications for the same trademark name: one at the EUIPO filed from Poland, and one at the USPTO filed from a company in Sheridan, Wyoming. Both were filed without the original brand owner's knowledge.

Three-register monitoring caught both. Single-register monitoring would have caught neither.

The data behind the numbers

We source all our data directly from official registers. Not from third-party databases. Not from scraped web pages. From the same feeds and APIs that the IPO, EUIPO, and USPTO make available to authorised data users.

This matters because data accuracy is everything in trademark monitoring. A missed match could mean a missed opposition deadline. A false match wastes your time and erodes trust. Our matching engine operates on 100% normalised data with phonetic, visual, and semantic matching across all three registers simultaneously.

What this costs

Businesses that want access to official register data across multiple jurisdictions have traditionally had to use enterprise platforms priced for corporate IP departments.

TMGuard starts at £99 per year.

We can do this because the platform is built with AI from the ground up, runs on modern infrastructure, and does not carry the overhead of a 500-person enterprise sales team.

The data is the same. The price is not.

Check your brand now

You can search all 21 million+ marks for free at tmguard.uk/check. It takes about 10 seconds. No signup required.

If you want ongoing monitoring with alerts when new applications conflict with your brand, plans start at £99/year for UK monitoring, with EU and US coverage available on higher tiers.