1. Introduction
Welcome to Avanti Notum, a trade mark risk screening tool operated by Avanti Mind Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 16049394, registered office The Venture Centre Sir William Lyons Road, University Of Warwick Science Park, Coventry, England, CV4 7EZ). By accessing or using Avanti Notum at avantinotum.com, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service.
Please read these terms carefully before using our service. If you do not agree to any part of these terms, you must not use Avanti Notum.
These terms govern your use of the Avanti Notum risk screening tool and any associated features, data, or outputs. They do not constitute legal advice, and nothing in these terms creates a lawyer-client relationship.
2. Service Description
Avanti Notum is a risk screening tool for UK trade marks. It compares a name or mark you enter with the marks held in its copy of the UK trade marks register, scores how similar they are on a scale of 0 to 100, and groups each result into a risk band. Every answer states the part of the register it covers and the date that coverage speaks for.
A screening result is informational only. It is not legal advice, a legal opinion, or professional guidance on the availability, registrability, or validity of any trade mark. A similarity score is not a probability that an application will be opposed or refused. You should not rely on a screening result as the basis for filing, using, or abandoning a trade mark without first obtaining independent legal advice.
A screening is not a clearance search or a clearance opinion: it checks one register, as of one date, for similar marks, and it does not consider unregistered rights, company or domain names, registrations held outside the UK, or how a tribunal would weigh the goods and services concerned.
A Name Verdict is a screening summary, not a legal opinion. It brings together the screening bands for one name in one place, with up to three reasons and a suggested next step, and it carries the same limits as the screening it summarises: it is produced automatically from our copy of the UK register as at the stated coverage date; it does not say that a name is available, safe to use or registrable; and it is not a prediction of what the UK Intellectual Property Office or a tribunal will decide. This definition applies wherever a Name Verdict is shown.
Avanti Mind Ltd does not give legal advice and is not regulated to do so. Where a result suggests a conflict, Avanti Notum may point you to an independent adviser. Any adviser you choose acts for you under their own terms, not ours.
3. User Obligations
By using Avanti Notum, you agree to:
- Provide accurate information when registering for an account.
- Keep your login credentials confidential and not share access with others.
- Use the service only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these terms.
- Not attempt to reverse engineer, scrape, or systematically extract data from the service beyond what is made available through normal use.
- Not use the service to make decisions that require professional legal advice without first seeking that advice independently.
- Not present a screening result from Avanti Notum to anyone as legal advice or a professional opinion.
You are responsible for ensuring that your use of the service complies with applicable laws and regulations in your jurisdiction.
4. Intellectual Property
All intellectual property rights in Avanti Notum, including the software, algorithms, user interface, branding, and documentation, are owned by or licensed to Avanti Mind Ltd.
Trade mark data drawn from the UK Intellectual Property Office and other public sources remains subject to the terms of those sources. Avanti Notum does not claim ownership over third-party trade mark records displayed within search results.
You are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use Avanti Notum. You may use its screening results and reports for your own business or for a client you advise, and you may share them with your advisers and with that client. You may not resell access to Avanti Notum, republish the register data it holds as a dataset, or reproduce or commercialise the Avanti Notum platform itself, without prior written consent from Avanti Mind Ltd.
5. Subscriptions, One-off Reports and Cancellation
Prices and payment. The price of each plan and of the Name Report is shown on our pricing page and again at checkout. All prices include VAT. Payment is by card through Stripe; we never see your full card details.
Subscriptions renew automatically. A paid plan is billed in advance, monthly or annually as you choose at checkout, and renews automatically at the end of each billing period at the price shown at checkout until you cancel. Your minimum commitment is one billing period. The price of your plan does not change while you stay on it unless we tell you by email at least 30 days before the renewal at which the new price would apply, and you can cancel before that renewal.
Cancelling within 14 days. You may cancel a subscription for any reason within 14 days after the day you take it out, whether you buy as a consumer or for a business. At checkout we ask you to confirm that you want your plan to start straight away rather than waiting until those 14 days have passed. If you confirm that and then cancel within the 14 days, we refund what you paid less a proportionate charge for the part of the billing period that has run up to the day you tell us, calculated on the price you paid. If you did not ask us to start straight away, we refund the full amount. Refunds go back to the card you paid with, without any fee, within 14 days of your telling us.
Cancelling after 14 days. You can cancel at any time from your billing page. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the billing period you have already paid for; you keep access until then and you are not charged again. We do not refund the unused part of a monthly or annual period once the 14 days have passed.
The Name Report. The Name Report is a one-off purchase at £9.99. It is digital content: one full search and one risk screening report for a single name, supplied as a PDF you can open in any PDF reader, as soon as your payment is confirmed. Because it is supplied immediately, at checkout we ask you to consent to its being supplied before the 14-day cancellation period ends and to acknowledge that you lose the right to cancel once supply begins. If you do not give that consent and acknowledgement we will not supply it until the 14 days have passed. If we cannot deliver a Name Report you have paid for, we refund it in full.
How to cancel. Tell us through your billing page, through our contact page, or by post to our registered office. You may use the model cancellation form we provide at checkout and at avantinotum.com/cancellation-form, but you do not have to; any clear statement that you want to cancel is enough. A cancellation sent before the end of the 14 days is in time even if we receive it later. If you cancel through the website we will acknowledge it by email straight away.
Failed payments. If a renewal payment fails we keep your plan open for a short grace period, currently three days, so that you can update your card. If payment is still not made, the plan ends and your account returns to the Free plan. Nothing already supplied is affected.
6. Our Responsibility to You
What we never exclude. Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else the law does not allow us to limit or exclude. If you are a consumer, nothing in these terms takes away your legal rights to have the service performed with reasonable care and skill, to receive digital content that is of satisfactory quality, fit for purpose and as described, or to the remedies the Consumer Rights Act 2015 gives you if we fall short.
What we are responsible for. We are responsible for providing Avanti Notum with reasonable care and skill, for the register coverage and coverage date each answer states, and for loss you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breaking these terms or failing to use reasonable care and skill. Loss is foreseeable if it is obvious that it will happen, or if, when the contract was made, both we and you knew it might happen.
What a screening is, and is not. A screening result, risk band, similarity score or Name Verdict is information to help you decide what to do next. It is not advice, and it does not promise that a name is free to use or to register. Provided we have used reasonable care and skill, we are not responsible for:
- the outcome of a decision you take about applying for, using, opposing or abandoning a trade mark, including an application that is refused or opposed, or a mark that turns out to conflict with a right our screening did not surface;
- gaps, errors or delays in the register data we receive from the UK Intellectual Property Office or another public source, or marks published in a period that the stated coverage of an answer does not include;
- interruptions to the service for maintenance, technical failure or events outside our reasonable control, provided we restore it within a reasonable time;
- loss that is not foreseeable, or that results from your using the service for a purpose we have not agreed to, or from your breaking these terms.
If you use Avanti Notum for business. If you buy for a business, we are not liable to you for loss of profit, revenue, business, goodwill or anticipated savings, or for any indirect or consequential loss, however arising, and our total liability to you for all claims arising in any 12-month period is limited to the greater of £100 and the total amount you paid us in that period. This paragraph does not apply if you are a consumer.
If you are a consumer. Our total liability to you for loss that is not covered by the first paragraph of this section is limited to the greater of £100 and the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim. This limit does not apply to the liabilities we never exclude or to the statutory rights described in the first paragraph.
7. Disclaimers
Avanti Notum is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We make no warranties, express or implied, regarding the completeness, accuracy, fitness for purpose, or uninterrupted availability of the service.
Screening results are derived from public register data that may not be complete or fully up to date; each answer states the coverage it relies on. A result that does not surface a similar mark does not guarantee that no such mark exists, or that a new mark is free to use or register. Always seek independent legal advice before filing any trade mark application.
Similarity scores and risk bands generated by Avanti Notum are screening indicators only. They reflect automated comparisons, are not a probability of opposition or refusal, and do not constitute a legal assessment of likelihood of confusion.
8. Termination
We may suspend or end your access to Avanti Notum if you break these terms, use the service in a way that harms it or other users, or if the law requires us to. We will tell you why unless the law prevents us. For a serious breach, or where continuing would cause harm, we may act immediately; otherwise we will give you reasonable notice and a chance to put things right. If we end a paid plan for any reason other than your breach, we refund the unused part of the period you have paid for.
You may close your account at any time via the account settings page. Upon termination, your right to use the service ceases immediately. Provisions of these terms that by their nature should survive termination, including limitations of liability and intellectual property provisions, shall continue to apply.
9. Governing Law and Where Disputes Are Heard
These terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of them or out of your use of Avanti Notum, are governed by the law of England and Wales.
If you use Avanti Notum for business, the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction over any such dispute or claim.
If you are a consumer, the choice of the law of England and Wales does not take away the protection given to you by any law of the part of the United Kingdom where you live that cannot be excluded by agreement. You may bring a claim in the courts of England and Wales or, if you live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, in the courts there, and any claim we bring against you will be brought in the courts of the part of the United Kingdom where you live.
If any provision of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in full force and effect.
10. Changes to These Terms
We may update these terms. If we make a change that is material to you, we will tell you by email, or by a notice when you sign in, at least 14 days before it takes effect. If you do not want to continue under the changed terms you may cancel before they take effect, and if you have paid in advance for a period that runs past that date we will refund the unused part. Minor changes, such as corrections and clarifications that do not reduce your rights, and changes we must make to comply with the law, may take effect when published; the date at the top of this page always shows the version in force.
The terms that apply to a Name Report are the terms in force when you buy it.
11. Contact
If you have questions about these terms, please contact Avanti Mind Ltd through our contact page.
Avanti Mind Ltd, company number 16049394. Registered office: The Venture Centre Sir William Lyons Road, University Of Warwick Science Park, Coventry, England, CV4 7EZ. ICO registration number: ZC172544.