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Trademarks · Reviewed 20 Oct 2026

Signa

Global trademark search, screening, and monitoring API for developers.

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Signa at a glance

SEO analysis

Collected Oct 20, 2026

signa.so: an estimated 7,519 total monthly visits and about 2,367 monthly organic visits across 395 ranking keywords. Scout crawled 15 pages and measured a technical health score of 96/100.

7.5KEstimated total trafficModeled monthly visits395Ranking keywordsPublic search sample96/100Technical health15 pages checked23Referring domainsLive backlink summary

Overview

01

Summary

The useful answer before the supporting detail.

Signa is a global trademark API platform that lets developers search, screen, scan, and monitor trademarks through one unified API S28. It is used by developers, startups, and platforms to automate brand protection, replacing manual listing checks and reducing missed conflicts S28. The main practical value is normalized, deduplicated trademark data from multiple offices with smart matching and webhooks, enabling scalable, automated workflows S28.

02

Product identity and positioning

Name, category, positioning, audience, and first-party claims.

  • Identity: Signa is a global trademark API platform S28.
  • Core purpose: Solves the problem of manual, error-prone trademark checking across multiple registers S28.
  • Intended users: Developers, startups, and platforms needing trademark data at scale S28 S90.
  • Product scope: A single API product covering search, screening, scanning, and monitoring S28.
  • Positioning: Positioned as "trademark intelligence for modern platforms" S28.
  • Claimed distinction: Claims every record is normalized, deduplicated, and checked against official sources S28.
03

Use cases and audiences

Who the product serves and the jobs it is designed to handle.

AudiencePractical use case
DevelopersIntegrate trademark search and screening into applications via REST API S28.
E-commerce platformsScan seller listings at upload time to catch trademark conflicts before they go live S103.
Marketplace sellersValidate product imports and check listings for branded goods S103.
Brand protection teamsMonitor marketplaces for counterfeit listings and automate detection S91 S103.
Startups & scale-upsProtect brands as they grow without hiring a full legal team S91.
Business formation servicesAdd trademark screening to business formation workflows S90.

Features

09

Features and capabilities

Core functions and evidence-backed product capabilities.

CapabilityWhat it does
Trademark SearchQuery multiple trademark offices (USPTO, EUIPO, WIPO, UKIPO) with one API call S28.
Trademark ScreeningRisk-check proposed names against live records with fuzzy, phonetic, and lookalike detection S28.
Listing ScanSend a product listing as JSON and get a risk assessment for trademark conflicts S103.
Trademark MonitoringCreate watches for marks, owners, or classes and receive alerts on changes S91.
WebhooksReceive signed alert events for monitoring and screening results S91.
Data NormalizationEvery record is normalized, deduplicated, and checked against its official source S28.
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Integrations and ecosystem

Connected products, exports, APIs, and workflow compatibility.

Integration or interfaceTypeWhat it enables
REST APIAPIProvides endpoints for search, screening, scanning, and monitoring S28.
WebhooksWebhookSends signed alerts for monitoring and screening results S91.
AI modelAI interfaceSearch live trademark records and check deadlines by asking AI model S135.
ChatGPTAI interfaceSearch live trademark records and check deadlines by asking ChatGPT S135.
Microsoft CopilotAI interfaceTrademark search and deadlines inside Microsoft Copilot (coming soon) S135.
JSON/CSV exportData portabilityExport results in JSON or CSV formats S28.

Pricing

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Pricing and plans

Published plans, free access, trials, credits, and pricing limitations.

Plan or offerVerified price and billingIncludedLimits
Free$0 monthly1,000 credits a month, plus 10,000 at signup S87Up to 100 searches (1,000 credits) a month S87
Starter$99 per month, billed yearly S8720,000 credits a month S87300 requests a minute; extra credits $10 per 1,000 S87
Growth$399 per month, billed yearly S87100,000 credits a month S871,000 requests a minute; extra credits $5 per 1,000 S87
Scale$999 per month, billed yearly S87500,000 credits a month S873,000 requests a minute; extra credits $2.50 per 1,000 S87
EnterpriseContact sales S87CustomWhite-label, data rights, SLA S87

Competition

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Competitive landscape

Domains competing for the same organic search demand.

Sampled competitors

CompetitorFirst-page appearancesSampled queriesAverage positionQueries observed
uspto.gov424.3uspto tess, tess search
usa.gov111uspto tess
reddit.com112uspto tess
tmsearch.uspto.gov112tess search
libraries.rutgers.edu113uspto tess
youtube.com114uspto tess
nypl.org114tess search
branddiplomacy.com115uspto tess
search.library.wisc.edu115tess search
startup-recipes.innovationworks.org116uspto tess

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Customers, testimonials, and first-party review claims

Page typeEvidenceSource
customersLog inSign uphttps://signa.so/customers
customersMeet our Customershttps://signa.so/customers
customersTailark is trusted by over 100 companies to help them scale their business and stay ahead of the competition.https://signa.so/customers
customersBolt implemented our streaming optimization suite to reduce buffering by 62% during peak viewing hours.https://signa.so/customers
customers[Read Story](#)https://signa.so/customers
customersUptime target across all our services.https://signa.so/customers
customersSupport from the team that built the API.https://signa.so/customers
customersIntegrationshttps://signa.so/customers
customersProductivity Boosthttps://signa.so/customers
customersOur platform continues to grow with developers and businesses using productivity.https://signa.so/customers
customersHow Stripe is scaling their marketing websites.https://signa.so/customers
customersHigh-performance.https://signa.so/customers
customersHow Hulu is building and scaling their marketing websites.https://signa.so/customers
customersFast and secure.https://signa.so/customers
customersHow Vercel is building and scaling their marketing websites.https://signa.so/customers
customersImproved workflow.https://signa.so/customers
customersHow Beacon is transforming their marketing websites.https://signa.so/customers
customersHow Supabase is transforming their marketing websites.https://signa.so/customers
customersHow OpenAI is transforming their marketing websites.https://signa.so/customers
customersLoved by the Communityhttps://signa.so/customers

Independent review sources discovered

No links to supported independent review platforms were discovered on the collected pages.

14

AI visibility

Measured ChatGPT and Google AI mentions with cited sources.

AI-assistant referral traffic

  • Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 1.7%
MonthSource
—All AI assistants

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Site-stated AI capabilities

Page typeEvidenceSource
featuresMachine learning picks the brand-like terms out of titles and descriptions, then checks each one for exact, misspelled, and sound-alike matches. Creative respellings do not slip through.https://signa.so/solutions/scan
featuresAI adoption among IP professionals surged from 57% to 85% in two years. From the USPTO's new classification agent that cuts prep time from 5 months to 5 minutes, to deep learning systems searching 57 million logos in seconds — here's how AI is reshaping every stage of trademark search and what it means for practitioners.https://signa.so/blog/category/product
featuresPowering modern platforms in Legaltech, AI, and e-commerce.https://signa.so/
featuresMachine learning picks the brand-like terms out of titles and descriptions, then checks each one for exact, misspelled, and sound-alike matches. Creative respellings do not slip through.https://signa.so/solutions/scan
integrationsConnection docsGet startedhttps://signa.so/integrations
integrationsConnection guidehttps://signa.so/integrations/chatgpt
integrationsSee every tool in the docshttps://signa.so/integrations/chatgpt
integrationsdocs.signa.so/ai/mcphttps://signa.so/integrations/chatgpt
integrationsAdd to Claudehttps://signa.so/integrations/claude

These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.

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Marketing opportunities

Actions calculated directly from the collected evidence.

OpportunityRecommended actionEvidence
Striking-distance keywordMove “uspto tess” from position 6 toward the top three.Volume 9,900 · https://signa.so/blog/tess-is-gone-how-to-search-trademarks
Important pageStrengthen the page already earning search visibility before creating an unrelated page.https://signa.so/blog/tess-is-gone-how-to-search-trademarks · 6 sampled keywords · best position 6
Competitor gapReview the sampled queries where uspto.gov appears.4 first-page appearances across uspto tess, tess search

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Website evidence gaps

  • reviews: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • changes: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • identity: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • technical: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.

Trust and proof

16

Customers, proof, and reviews

Published proof, customer signals, and review evidence.

Independent reviews

No citation-grounded independent review links were found.

Customer proof

No named customers, testimonials, or customer case studies were found.

Independent mentions

  • Signa - Global Trademark API Platform — Signa - Global Trademark API Platform ... # The global trademark API ... Search, screen, and monitor trademarks across USPTO, EUIPO, WIPO, UKIPO, and more with one unified API. ... ### Query every supported register at once. Exact, fuzzy, and phonetic matching. ... REST endpoints for search, screening, scanning, and monitoring. The same JSON schema across every register. ... ### Coverage 40M+ records from USPTO, EUIPO, WIPO, UKIPO, and more registers.
  • Introduction - Signa Docs — with more added over time. Signa normalizes filings from trademark offices worldwide into a single, consistent data model. One integration gives you ... so you can build trademark tools without parsing raw data from multiple government systems yourself
  • Trademark Search API - Global Database Access — # Global Trademark Search in One API Query millions of records from USPTO, EUIPO, WIPO, UKIPO, and more in a single request. Exact, fuzzy, and phonetic matching, returned as consistent JSON. ... Signa covers. Standardized data and intelligent matching in
  • API Overview - Signa — The Signa API is the developer-first platform for searching, analyzing, and monitoring trademarks across multiple trademark offices worldwide. ... Search across USPTO, EUIPO, UKIPO, and WIPO with a single API call. No need to integrate with multiple trademark offices. ... ## Monitoring & Webhooks ... POST `/v1/monitors` ... / Office Code / Name / Coverage / Trademarks / / --- / --- / --- / --- / / USPTO / United States Patent and Trademark Office / United States / 3.5M+ / / EUIPO / European Unio
  • Introduction - Signa Docs — The Signa API is a RESTful JSON API for trademark search, retrieval, and reference data. All endpoints are versioned under `/v1/`. Base URL ``` https://api.signa.so/v1 ``` ... your API key to every request: ``` Authorization: Bearer sig_xxxxxxxxx ```
  • Trademark Offices, One API / Signa — # Trademark Offices, One API Search and monitor trademarks from 11 trademark offices through one API. Marks protected in 130+ countries, normalized into one schema. ... Trademark records synced from official registers. Typical response time across search
  • Quickstart - Signa Docs — # Quickstart Make your first API call in under 5 minutes This guide walks you through two tiers. The first gets you a search result in 5 minutes. The second adds the TypeScript SDK, filters, pagination, and the enriched owner view.
  • Search Trademarks - Signa Docs — : 10 per page. Find marks that resemble a name with `q`, keep or drop marks by their exact text with text filters and exclusions, and narrow by office, class, status, owner or date. Every request needs `q`, a text filter, or at least one other filter.

External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.

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Company, security, and trust

Ownership, policies, security signals, and public trust evidence.

SignalFindingSource
Company and ownershipProfile 1: Founder doing a one-time name clearance. You're launching a product and need to check whether the name is available. Start with the free tools: USPTO Trademark Search for the US market, WIPO Global Brand Dsource
Contact and supportNot published on the collected pages.—
Legal and privacyNot published on the collected pages.—
Security and complianceNot published on the collected pages.—
Uptime and status pageEngineered for 99.9% uptime with automatic failoversource

Not found on the collected pages: contact and support, legal and privacy, security and compliance. This only means Scout did not find it on the pages it read; it says nothing about the company itself.

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Documentation and product updates

Help resources, product guidance, and visible changes over time.

Resource or updateTypeWhat is availableDate or freshness
How to Add Trademark Checks to an E-Commerce Platform / Signa BlogGuideTrademark checks for e-commerce platforms: add automated screening with Signa's API. Score risk, prevent infringement, and monitor new filings in minutes. (source)Not dated
The Developer's Guide to Trademark Data: Fields, Formats, and Where to Get It / Signa BlogGuideGuides, comparisons, pricing breakdowns, use cases, and how-to articles. (source)Not dated
How Nice Classification Works: A Developer's Guide to Trademark Categories / Signa BlogGuideNice classification organizes trademarks into 45 classes of goods and services. Learn how the system works, common edge cases, and how to query class data via API. (source)Not dated
How to Trademark an App Name (Before Someone Else Does) / Signa BlogGuideGuides, comparisons, pricing breakdowns, use cases, and how-to articles. (source)Not dated
USPTO Trademark API in 2026: TSDR, Bulk Data, and What tmsearch Doesn't Offer / Signa BlogGuideIs there a USPTO API for trademark search? TSDR covers status by serial number, ODP covers bulk files, tmsearch.uspto.gov has none. What exists in 2026. (source)Not dated

Not found in the collected public sources: public roadmap, changelog or release notes, status page, separate help center or knowledge base.

Technical

19

Technical and delivery signals

Delivery model, platforms, API, data ownership, reliability claims and release activity.

SignalFindingSource
Delivery model (cloud, self-hosted, desktop, browser extension)Cloud-based API platform S28.S28
Platforms and appsWeb-based API accessible via REST S28.S28
API and extensibility (API, SDK, webhooks, MCP, plugins)REST API with webhooks and AI assistant integrations S28 S135.S28 S135
Data ownership and exportExport results in JSON or CSV S28.S28
Performance and reliability claimsEngineered for 99.9% uptime with automatic failover S28.S28
Release activityNot published on the collected pages.—
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Measured infrastructure

Domain, certificate, and hosting signals, measured directly.

SignalFinding
TLS certificateLet's Encrypt, valid, expires 2026-11-30
Security headersHSTS, CSP, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy
Server headerVercel
Mail handled bysmtp.google.com
Nameserversns-1350.awsdns-40.org, ns-1659.awsdns-15.co.uk

Not measurable: wayback: rate limited by archive.org, ladder stopped after 1 probe(s). A gap here means the lookup was unavailable, not that the finding is negative.

21

Technical site audit

A bounded multi-page crawl with page-level issues and URLs.

Scout — Bounded technical crawl

  • Pages crawled: 15 of 15 maximum
  • Technical health: 96/100
  • Critical issues: 0
  • Warnings: 8
  • Notices: 8

Issues

SeverityIssueValueAffected URL
warningTitle length should be reviewed7https://signa.so/pricing
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed178https://signa.so/solutions/search
warningPage should have one primary H12https://signa.so/solutions/search
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed176https://signa.so/solutions/screening
warningPage should have one primary H12https://signa.so/solutions/screening
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed193https://signa.so/solutions/scan
warningPage should have one primary H12https://signa.so/solutions/scan
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed180https://signa.so/solutions/monitor
warningPage should have one primary H12https://signa.so/solutions/monitor
noticeLow visible word count96https://signa.so/integrations
warningPage should have one primary H10https://signa.so/glossary
noticeLow visible word count49https://signa.so/glossary
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed216https://signa.so/contact
noticeLow visible word count95https://signa.so/contact
warningMissing canonical URL—https://signa.so/legal/terms-of-service
warningMissing canonical URL—https://signa.so/legal/privacy-policy

Crawled pages

StatusTitleH1sWordsResponseURL
200Signa - Global Trademark API Platform1651129 mshttps://signa.so/
200Pricing1438277 mshttps://signa.so/pricing
200Trademark Search API - Global Database Access2918271 mshttps://signa.so/solutions/search
200Trademark Screening API - Risk-Check Names Before Launch2838286 mshttps://signa.so/solutions/screening
200Trademark Scan API - Listing Conflict Detection2887301 mshttps://signa.so/solutions/scan
200Trademark Monitoring API - Automated Watch & Alerts2899749 mshttps://signa.so/solutions/monitor
200Trademark Offices, One API \Signa1556289 ms
200Trademark API by Country - Global Coverage \Signa12013592 ms
200Blog - News, Insights & Updates1515249 mshttps://signa.so/blog
200The Radar - Newsworthy Trademark Filings, Monthly \Signa1299211 ms
200Integrations: Use Signa in AI model, ChatGPT and Copilot196172 mshttps://signa.so/integrations
200Trademark Glossary: 156+ IP Terms Defined \Signa049306 ms
200Contact Sales & Support195183 mshttps://signa.so/contact
200Terms of Service \Signa13995226 ms
200Privacy Policy \Signa13956232 ms

This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.

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Search Console and Analytics

First-party search and behavioral data connection state.

Modeled acquisition channels

ChannelEstimated share
direct39.4%
search34.2%
search organic32.7%
search paid1.4%
social6.2%
social organic5.5%
social paid0.7%
referrals10.2%
paid referrals3.0%
mail3.1%
gen ai1.7%
affiliate2.2%
other0.0%

First-party connections

IntegrationStatusData available after connection
Google Search ConsoleNot connectedClicks, impressions, CTR, average position, queries, pages, countries, and devices
Google AnalyticsNot connectedOrganic sessions, engagement, landing pages, conversions, geography, and devices

No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.

Limits and method

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Limitations and open questions

Known constraints and missing evidence from the collected pages.

The collected pages do not mention any competitors by name. Evidence gaps include lack of detailed security certifications, legal entity information, and customer case studies beyond one testimonial. Open questions remain about data coverage beyond the listed offices and the exact scope of the enterprise plan.

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Sources, method, and limitations

Evidence inventory, collection method, provider use, and constraints.

This report is based on 15 collected pages from signa.so, including the homepage, pricing, solutions, integrations, and learn articles. Static and rendered captures were used. External proof search was performed but no independent reviews were collected. Limitations include potential marketing bias and lack of third-party verification.

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