As from today the second version of TMview is available. This new version will offer you new features such as:
- A redesigned interface to improve the user experience. This includes fully configurable user preferences and search results display, and a system of tabs to open several trade marks simultaneously.
- New searching and filtering features such as fuzzy search, phrase search, search history, search suggestions. More search criteria are also available in the advanced search, such as the possibility to search by trade mark office(s), trade mark reference number and trade mark status.
- A system of Alerts for the users to receive notifications when specific events occur to selected trademarks.
- Improved performance and the possibility to view more trade marks per office.
Trade marks from the State Patent Bureau of the Republic of Lithuania, the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks of Romania and the Swedish Patent and Registration Office have now been added to the TMview search tool, providing free access to trade mark applications and registrations from a number of leading trade mark offices.
The latest expansion of TMview brings the total number of offices contributing data to 17. Besides Lithuania, Romania and Sweden these are: Bulgaria, Benelux, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, France, the UK, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, WIPO and OHIM. With the addition of more than 600000 Lithuanian, Romanian and Swedish trade marks, TMview now provides access to more than 6,6m trade marks in total.
TMview, which went live on 13 April 2010, is proving popular with users. Since then it has welcomed more than 530000 visitors from 170 different countries, with users from Spain, Germany and Italy among the most frequent visitors.
Since the beginning of March 2011, we have been working on developing the next version of TMview. If all goes as planned, you will see this new version some time in autumn.
The new TMview should – among other improvements – provide you with a better user interface for your comfort of use; create a few more search criteria to help you refine your searches; and also offer you the possibility to receive e-mail alerts when some particular events affect trade marks that you have decided to keep track of.
We will continue informing you on the evolution of this new version via the News.
On 8 November a prototype of the second version was successfully tested.
This new version aims to improve the usability of TMview by creating more functionalities to filter the information from the list of results.
The search criteria will also be updated and finally the users will have the possibility to receive an alert if there is a modification in the trade marks that they selected.
The second version of TMview will be available for mid 2011.
TMview is free of charge, available 24 * 7 * 365 and the data is provided and updated daily by the participating National Offices.
TMview allows you to access information about more than 5 millions trade marks. This figure will increase as more offices will join TMview.
Through TMview, you currently can access trade marks from the offices of: Benelux, the Czech Republic, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal, the OHIM and the WIPO. More offices will soon join TMview and by 2011, you should be able to search for the trade marks of all the European offices. TMview has also been presented to the Swiss and Norwegian Offices.
A second version of TMview is already under preparation so that we can offer you improved and more services. Let us know your first impressions and help us improving by filling in the User Form available.