Before you apply for a trademark or patent, you need to do a search. You have to make sure you’re not infringing on something that already exists. The USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) checks this too. That’s why most attorneys will hire a third-party service to run a thorough search across all databases. They’ll look for anything remotely similar and tell you if you’re in the clear. If the search comes back clean, Then your attorney collects the info, writes it up, and files it