Trade Mark Watch Services
In order to police your trade mark rights, it is necessary to keep an eye on the market to see whether others are making use of your trade marks without authorisation. One simple and inexpensive way to do this is to institute a watch service.
As most countries which register trade marks publish a list of trade mark applications in their country on a regular basis, it is possible to scan all these publications as they appear and to alert trade mark owners of an application by another party to register the same or a similar trade mark.
This is a cost effective way to find out at an early stage if others are planning to use a trade mark the same as or similar to yours. It is always easiest to deal with such a situation before the later party starts to build up rights.