A user name check of social networks is becoming essential for trademark protection.

The trademark industry's best practices identify nine stages in the trademark lifecycle. In recent years, the screening of domain names have been incorporated into the lifecycle. Screening searches of usernames need to be incorporated into these best practices as well.

There are several sites for checking user names. But only one is designed exclusively for trademark lawyers and brand owners.

A new user name checker for trademark owners includes the following tools:

1. Real-time of the top 500 social networks according to internet popularity
2. Search history for screening activities
3. Client reference to manage your clients separately
4. Short URL for sharing research with colleagues and clients
5. In-use reports for investigation and opinion support
6. Defensive reservation of usernames of exact trademarks
7. Watching subscriptions for emerging networks
8. Hosted email to handle communications with social networks

If you are a trademark lawyer who could use this to help your clients, please go to www.tm.biz to learn more.