Terms of Service

Effective: August 12, 2026

MarkAlarm ("the Service") is an automated information service that monitors public United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) data and sends notifications about newly filed trademark applications that may be similar to text you choose to watch. By using the Service you agree to these terms.

1. Information, not legal advice

The Service provides factual information from public records and automated similarity assessments. It does not provide legal advice, legal opinions, or attorney services, and no attorney-client relationship is created. Similarity scores are heuristic estimates, not legal conclusions about trademark infringement, priority, or registrability. Decisions about trademark matters should be made with a qualified attorney.

2. Coverage and limitations

The Service monitors new US federal trademark applications as published in USPTO public data. It does not monitor state registrations, common-law usage, business-name registries, domain registrations, social media, or non-US trademark offices. Monitoring depends on USPTO data availability and format; the Service may miss filings due to data errors, format changes, or outages, and similarity scoring may produce false positives and false negatives. The Service is a supplementary awareness tool and is not a guarantee that you will learn of every relevant filing or deadline.

3. Subscriptions, billing, refunds

Paid plans are billed by our payment processor (Lemon Squeezy) as merchant of record on a monthly or annual cycle. You can cancel any time from your manage page or via the processor's receipt links, effective at the end of the current billing period. If the Service isn't what you expected, contact support within 7 days of first purchase for a full refund.

4. Acceptable use

You may not use the Service to harass others, to scrape or resell its output at scale, or to represent its scores as legal determinations. We may throttle or suspend accounts that abuse the free check or the API.

5. Disclaimer and limitation of liability

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING FROM THE SERVICE IS LIMITED TO THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE. WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING MISSED OPPOSITION WINDOWS OR OTHER DEADLINES.

6. Changes

We may update these terms; material changes will be announced by email to subscribers. Continued use after changes constitutes acceptance.

7. Contact

Questions: support@getmarkalarm.com. MarkAlarm is not affiliated with or endorsed by the USPTO.