# TMGuard

## About
TMGuard is an AI-powered trademark monitoring platform for UK and EU trademarks. It helps businesses detect conflicts with their registered trademarks by scanning the official UK IPO and EUIPO registers and alerting them to new filings that could threaten their brand.

## Key facts
- Monitors over 7 million UK and EU trademarks
- Data sources: UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) full register via SFTP, European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) via production REST API
- Updated daily: UK register increments at 04:00 UTC, EU register polling at 05:00 UTC
- 9,300+ AI-analysed UK opposition decisions (1996-2026)
- Companies House business enrichment on every UK match
- Founded 2026 by Adrian Cherciu
- Company: TMGUARD LTD, Company No. 17055456, United Kingdom

## Pricing
All prices in GBP, billed annually. No contracts, cancel anytime.

### Starter: £99/year (£74 net after UK tax relief)
- 1 trademark monitored
- UK register scanning only
- Weekly match alerts with risk scores
- Opposition deadline tracking (2-month UK window)
- Companies House enrichment
- Free /check tool (5 searches/day)

### Business: £249/year (£187 net after UK tax relief) - Most popular
- 5 trademarks monitored
- UK and EU register scanning
- Weekly match alerts with risk scores
- Opposition deadline tracking (2-month UK, 3-month EU)
- Companies House enrichment (UK matches)
- AI trademark assistant
- Cross-jurisdiction matching (same mark in UK and EU)

### Professional: £499/year (£374 net after UK tax relief)
- 10 trademarks monitored
- UK and EU register scanning
- All watch types (text, phonetic, fuzzy, class, applicant, keyword)
- Opposition form generation (TM7/TM7a/TM8/TM21B)
- Proof-of-use evidence vault
- Priority support

### Intelligence: £999/year (£749 net after UK tax relief)
- Unlimited trademarks monitored
- UK and EU register scanning
- Opposition analytics: hearing officer profiles, firm benchmarking, class risk analysis
- Advanced decision search (9,300+ decisions)
- Agency dashboard with client management
- Intelligence API access
- Competitive filing intelligence

## One-off products
- Expanded search: £49 (manual deep search of UK and EU registers, delivered within 48 hours)
- Concierge review: £49/£99/£149 (standard/detailed/urgent trademark conflict assessment)

## Free tools (no signup required)
- /check: instant trademark conflict check against 7M+ UK and EU marks (5 per day)
- /renew: trademark renewal date checker for UK and EU marks
- /insights: public UK trademark intelligence dashboard

## Intelligence API
- REST API with key-based authentication
- Endpoints for trademark search, match data, opposition intelligence
- Available on Intelligence tier

## Competitors and positioning
- TMGuard starts at £99/year. Trademark solicitors charge £500-2,000/year for equivalent monitoring.
- Enterprise tools (Corsearch, CompuMark) cost £3,000-5,000+/year.
- TMGuard is the only UK platform combining official IPO register access, EUIPO API access, AI-analysed opposition intelligence, and Companies House enrichment in a single product for SMEs.

## Technical details
- Built on: Next.js, Vercel, Neon PostgreSQL, Cloudflare R2
- AI: Claude Sonnet (analysis), OpenAI text-embedding-3-small (semantic matching)
- Data: 3.87M UK marks (IPO SFTP), 3.15M EU marks (EUIPO API), updated daily

## Links
- Website: https://www.tmguard.uk
- Free check: https://www.tmguard.uk/check
- Pricing: https://www.tmguard.uk/pricing
- How it works: https://www.tmguard.uk/how-it-works
- Blog: https://www.tmguard.uk/blog
- Intelligence: https://www.tmguard.uk/intelligence