New Web Tool to Avoid International Domain and Trademark Conflicts: 14 Million Trademarks, 18 International Databases, Check with One Click, Free-of-Charge on markenbusiness.com

LUNEBURG, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 2004--International conflicts concerning domain names and trademarks are expensive and are becoming ever more so. Assistance can now be provided by the first, free-of-charge 'AvantIQuick' Trademark Check, on www.markenbusiness.com: with just one click, 18 important international trademark databases and over 14 million registrations can be checked. The trademark check examines not only registered and applied-for trademarks in the USA (federal and state), Canada and Mexico but also the databases of WIPO International Trademarks, European Community Trademarks and trademarks of European countries like Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Ireland and Switzerland.

The Markenbusiness Trademark Check module produces, immediately and free-of-charge, an answer to the question of whether a domain name is already in use as a registered trademark, and how many registrations there are in specific countries. Raban Woryna, chief editor of Markenbusiness: "The international trademark check makes worldwide domain registrations safer." After displaying the number of hits in individual databases, the possibility then exists of acquiring the full documentation for each individual hit - quickly, cheaply and without any fixed time limits being involved.

“The international trademark check makes worldwide domain registrations safer.”

The AvantlQuick Trademark Check is available exclusively on www.markenbusiness.com and is to find in the right-hand column on Markenbusiness. Markenbusiness is the magazine for brand name owners with daily news about trademarks, names, domains and legal issues concerning intellectual property. Markenbusiness includes Markenplatz, the market for trademarks, domains and company names. A directory of specialized lawyers, an international job market and numerous services, for the research, rating and selling of names, complete what's on offer at Markenbusiness. Markenbusiness is published by i-relations GmbH of Germany, who are one of the leading specialist suppliers of solutions for the management of intellectual property. For the purposes of search services, a first rate partner program is in place.

Markenbusiness is published by i-relations GmbH.