Trademark Search API Overview

Marker API V2 has 4 different API endpoints: Serial Number Search, Trademark Search, Description Search, and Expiration Search.

The Serial Number API endpoint returns one record per search and includes all registration data for the trademark.

The Trademark Search API endpoint allows for either exact match or wildcard searching using asterisks for wildcards. The trademark search can return trademarks of all statuses (pending, active, expired) or only active trademarks by setting "status" to "all" or "active".

The Description Search API endpoint searches the goods/services description and performs a wildcard search within the trademark descriptions. The description search can return trademarks of all statuses (pending, active, expired) or only active trademarks by setting "status" to "all" or "active".

The Expiration Search API endpoint searches for expiring trademarks within a given, future, time frame ("6 months", "1 year", etc).

All API endpoints implement paging for faster API responses with large result sets with 100 results per page. When a response has more results than what is returned the "next" key is set in the response. The next key is an integer that you should use as your "start" parameter in your next API call to see the next page. You should send all the same parameters (search, status, etc) but change the start parameter for each subsequent page request.

See the documentation for more details.

1. serial number
2. trademark
3. goods and services code
4. description
5. status code
6. status
7. status description
8. owner and address
9. filing date
10. registration date

How do I use the API?

$search = "starbucks";

//"active" or "all"
$status = "active";

//a new search should start at 1
$start = 1;

//see marker function below
$aryTrademarks = marker($search, $status, $start);

foreach($aryTrademarks as $trademark){
	$str =  $trademark["serialnumber"]." ".$trademark["trademark"]. " ".$trademark["description"]." ".$trademark["gscode"]." ".$trademark["regdate"]."
";
	echo $str;
}

function marker($search, $status, $start){
	//initialize curl
	$curl = curl_init();

	$username = "";
	$password = "";

	//create a url with your search term, username, and password
	$url = "https://dev.markerapi.com/api/v2/trademarks/trademark/".urlencode($search)."/status/{$status}/start/{$start}/username/{$username}/password/{$password}";

	//set curl options
	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

	//perform curl and return json decoded results
	$response = json_decode(curl_exec($curl));

	//if there were trademarks returned
	if($response->count > 0)
	{
		//loop through returned trademarks
		foreach($response->trademarks as $trademark)
		{
			//serial number
			$serialnumber = $trademark->serialnumber;

			//trademark name
			$wordmark = $trademark->wordmark;

			//trademark description
			$description = $trademark->description;

			//goods and services code
			$code = $trademark->code;

			//registration date
			$registrationdate = $trademark->registrationdate;

			$aryAllTrademarks[] = array("serialnumber" => $serialnumber, "trademark" => $wordmark, "description" => $description, "gscode" => $code, "regdate" => $registrationdate);
		}

		if(array_key_exists("next", $response)){
			$aryAllTrademarks = array_merge($aryAllTrademarks, marker($search, $status, $response->next));
		}

		return $aryAllTrademarks;
	}
}