Finding Names of the Business Companies

For any entrepreneur the most important and difficult work is the select the business name for the company. It mostly happens that a long list of names is revolving in our head from last many years but before selecting a name or getting too much attached to it that you are going to give this particular name for your company, it's very much important to know that the name is already given to any company or not.

There are different types of business companies, which operate at different levels of the government, and they have their own exclusive rights. Therefore, there is no central database for available business names. Therefore, a few steps can be taken for searching the business name availability is very worthy. There are few steps, which you need to follow:

Step 1: State Record Search

Initially you have to start from the state database from where you can easily find out that someone has incorporated that name in your state. If you find out that someone in your state incorporates the same business name then you are not required to file your business with that name. If you find out that name is not taken by any of the business company name then you crossed the first step without any problem.

Step 2: Finding Of Trademarks in Federal Records

Trademarks are registered which means that they are patented with US and in trademark office, in that case you have to go through the USPTO where you can search online to find out is there any company name registered from your company name. The uniqueness in the company name result in the less chances of matching your proposed name with another company as it will increase the chances of getting the acceptance of your proposed name by the USPTO.

Step 3: Search on Internet

An official database checking is the accurate method of finding out the names but it¢¬¢s not necessary that every business is present on the internet. Well those companies who have not registered does not get any benefit from the legal protection of the trademark registration act. You can also search for the domain names. Just type your business name. Com on the internet and you can find out that your company is already used as an URL. This causes the sole of many problems simultaneously. These are few steps, which you should carry out to check the business names available already in the market.