Trademark monitoring for restaurants, breweries & local brands
Planning to expand or franchise? A similar name filed elsewhere can block you. Watch the register for $9/month.
Free check: has anyone filed something like your name?
Scans US federal applications from the last 90 days. No signup.
The name that limits your expansion
Local brands — a brewery, a restaurant group, a café planning a second location — often operate for years on common-law rights alone. Then expansion plans hit a wall: someone in another region registered a similar name federally, and now your growth is boxed in, or you're the one getting the cease-and-desist. Beverage and food names collide constantly, and the register is where it plays out.
MarkAlarm watches new US filings and flags names close to yours in the food, beverage, and hospitality classes — early enough to matter. Free check above.
Daily monitoring, instant alerts, weekly all-clear. Cancel anytime.
Start watching →Common questions
Is this legal advice?
No — MarkAlarm surfaces public USPTO filings and similarity scores with links to the official record. Whether to act on a filing is a legal decision; if one worries you, a trademark attorney is the right next step, and you'll arrive with the filing already in hand.
Do I need a registered trademark to use it?
No. Many people watch a name they use but haven't registered — so they learn immediately if someone else moves to register it.
How do I cancel?
One click from your manage page, effective at period end. Payments are handled by Lemon Squeezy; we never see your card.