Trademarks & Domains — manage and watch

Technically, trademarks and domains are stored as a special contract type — so they reuse the same proven deadline and calendar logic as your contracts, with nothing new to learn. Trademarks, domains and the trademark watch are grouped in the sidebar under "Schutzrechte" (industrial-property rights).

Manage trademarks

Keep the full register facts for each mark in one place: type (word / figurative / word-figurative / 3D / sound), register (DPMA, EUIPO, WIPO), application and registration numbers, filing / registration / priority dates, the Nice classes and the goods-and-services list. Store a mark image for figurative marks. Edit all data — including the owner — at any time.

Clear before you file — the research case

A mark exists in the system before it is a registered right: you create the candidate in status "Zu prüfen" (to check) — with mark text, type and the intended Nice classes, while application number and deadlines are still open. For legal clearance (availability, collision, registrability) a research case is opened automatically — with the full case toolset: AI chat, sourced research, document management, timeline.

Renewal deadlines — automatic

Once the mark is registered, the platform tracks the 10-year renewal deadline automatically — with an advance reminder, over the same deadline and calendar logic as contracts. So no protection lapses unnoticed. Domains carry the annual renewal deadline accordingly (below).

Domains

For each domain you keep registrar, expiry date, nameservers, the DNSSEC and transfer-lock flags, and status. The annual renewal deadline is tracked automatically so a domain never lapses unnoticed.

Trademark watch

The trademark watch is the guardian of your portfolio: a watch profile checks the official registers for new, colliding third-party filings, scores similarity, and drops candidates into a review inbox.

• Official registers. Matched against EUIPO (EU) — now live — and DPMA (Germany), following shortly. Register access is platform-wide; nothing to set up.
• Watch multiple spellings. For a search term (e.g. CEAVEO) you add variants (CEVEO, CEAVO) that are checked too — catching similar filings a plain word search would miss.
• Transparent scoring. The similarity score is a transparent, deterministic heuristic (mark-text similarity + Nice-class overlap), not an opaque "AI decision". It is a triage aid; the human decides.
• A lead, not a verdict. Each hit is a candidate the team reviews — dismiss, or confirm → open an opposition case on the watched mark. The tool never files an opposition on its own.

Disputes & opposition

For any mark or domain, open a case in one click — opposition, cancellation, infringement (trademark) or UDRP / cybersquatting (domain) — linked to the right. Because rights are managed as a special contract type, the same access control, versioning and audit logging as the rest of LEGALinhouse apply; external collaborators see only what is assigned to them.

Maintain, evidence, link

Edit all register data of a mark or domain at any time; attach documents (certificate, application, correspondence) directly to the right. Application and register numbers deep-link into the official online register (DPMA/EUIPO), and watch-hit case numbers deep-link there too — one click from your portfolio to the official source.