Engagement Terms

1. No attorney-client relationship on initial contact

Submitting a contact form, requesting a consultation, purchasing a monitoring plan, purchasing a one-time report (including a Knockout Search Report or a Single Infringement Report), or subscribing to the Trademark Database API does not create an attorney-client relationship. An attorney-client relationship is established only upon execution of a written engagement agreement signed by both parties.

2. Scope of services

Goalie IP's monitoring services are designed to identify potential intellectual property conflicts and infringement. Our reports flag possible issues for client review. Reports do not constitute legal opinions on infringement, validity, or enforceability unless explicitly stated in writing.

Monitoring coverage is comprehensive but not exhaustive. No monitoring service can guarantee detection of all infringements across all platforms and jurisdictions.

One-time reports — the Knockout Search Report and the Single Infringement Report — are individual research products, not ongoing engagements. Each is generated by an automated system executing a search methodology designed by our attorneys. They are not prepared or reviewed by an attorney and do not constitute legal opinions on availability, registrability, infringement, validity, or enforceability. A Knockout Search Report identifies existing US federal trademark filings that are identical or confusingly similar to the mark you submit, scoped to the goods and services you describe; it is not a clearance opinion and does not determine whether you may lawfully use or register a mark. Our searches draw on Goalie IP's own daily-refreshed copy of the USPTO trademark database and cover US federal filings only — they do not include state registrations, common-law uses, or foreign trademark registers.

The Trademark Database API is a separate data product and is not a monitoring service. API subscribers receive programmatic access to publicly available USPTO trademark records only. API access does not include attorney review, monitoring reports, infringement analysis, or enforcement assistance. Those services require a separate monitoring engagement.

3. Plan terms and billing

The summaries below state each plan's price, what it covers, and when its fee is refundable. Our Refund & Cancellation Policy sets out the full refund terms, including billing errors, duplicate and unauthorized charges, and how we handle chargebacks; where it addresses a refund question in more detail than this section, that policy governs.

Knockout Search Report ($49.99): One-time fee. We search the exact word or phrase you submit, scoped to the goods and services you describe. Most reports are available within 120 minutes; occasionally additional time is required, in which case the report will be available within 2 business days. You are asked to enter your proposed mark twice at checkout to confirm it. Final sale — non-refundable once your order is placed, including where the term submitted was not the term intended. This is not unconditional: if we fail to deliver your report, or the report we deliver is materially deficient because of an error on our part, we will correct the report at no charge or, if you prefer, refund the fee in full. That does not extend to dissatisfaction with the search results themselves. The report is generated by an automated system executing a search methodology designed by our attorneys; it is not prepared or reviewed by an attorney, is not a legal opinion or legal advice, and purchasing it does not create an attorney-client relationship. The search covers US federal (USPTO) filings only and does not include state registrations, common-law uses, or foreign trademarks.

Single Infringement Report ($49.99): One-time fee. Most reports are available within 120 minutes; occasionally additional time is required, in which case the report will be available within 2 business days. Final sale — non-refundable once your order is placed. This is not unconditional: if we fail to deliver your report, or the report we deliver is materially deficient because of an error on our part, we will correct the report at no charge or, if you prefer, refund the fee in full. That does not extend to dissatisfaction with the search results themselves. Valid for a single trademark as specified at time of purchase.

Monthly Trademark Monitoring ($49.99/month): Recurring monthly payment. Covers an initial report plus monthly reports until cancelled. Cancel anytime. Cancellations will not be prorated. We will continue monitoring until the end of the subscription period after the cancellation.

Annual Trademark Monitoring ($499.00/year): Billed annually. Covers an initial report plus monthly reports for one year. Recurring annual payment. Cancel anytime. Cancellations will not be prorated. We will continue monitoring until the end of the subscription period after the cancellation. If you cancel within 14 days of your first annual charge, we will refund the fee you paid, less our published one-time report price of $49.99 for each report already delivered to you. After that 14-day period the annual fee is non-refundable.

API Starter ($19.00/month): Recurring monthly payment. Provides programmatic access to Goalie IP's own copy of the USPTO trademark database via the Goalie IP API. Includes up to 5,000 API calls per calendar month. Calls reset on the first of each month. Unused calls do not roll over. Cancel anytime. Cancellations will not be prorated; access continues until the end of the current billing period.

API Professional ($49.00/month): Recurring monthly payment. Provides programmatic access to Goalie IP's own copy of the USPTO trademark database via the Goalie IP API. Includes up to 30,000 API calls per calendar month. Calls reset on the first of each month. Unused calls do not roll over. Cancel anytime. Cancellations will not be prorated; access continues until the end of the current billing period.

API Business ($149.00/month): Recurring monthly payment. Provides programmatic access to Goalie IP's own copy of the USPTO trademark database via the Goalie IP API. Includes up to 150,000 API calls per calendar month. Calls reset on the first of each month. Unused calls do not roll over. Cancel anytime. Cancellations will not be prorated; access continues until the end of the current billing period.

Calls beyond your included allowance: Paid API plans continue to serve requests after the monthly allowance is exhausted and bill the excess at the close of the billing period, at $0.0040 per additional call on Starter, $0.0020 on Professional, and $0.0015 on Business. Total calls in a calendar month are capped at three times the plan's included allowance; past that ceiling requests are refused rather than billed. Overage charges reflect calls actually served and are non-refundable. The Free plan does not bill overage — requests stop once the allowance is exhausted. Requests refused by a rate limit are not counted against the monthly allowance and are not billed. Subscribers are responsible for charges generated by their API keys, including calls made by automated systems they operate, and should set limits in their own software.

4. Confidentiality

Information you share with Goalie IP in connection with a monitoring engagement or a one-time report is held in confidence. We do not sell it, publish it, or share it with anyone, except as required by law or with your consent.

This includes the proposed mark and the goods or services you submit for a Knockout Search Report, which we treat as confidential business information. We do not file trademark applications on our own behalf for a mark submitted to us for searching.

One thing you should understand about how a search works. Searching necessarily means querying third-party search services and public databases over the internet. While we run your search, your mark and search terms are transmitted to those services in the same manner, and with the same exposure, as if you had typed them into a public search engine yourself, and each provider then handles that query under its own terms. That is the full extent of the exposure. We do not disclose, publish, sell, or otherwise make your information available to anyone beyond what running the search itself requires.

API subscribers are not subject to the monitoring engagement confidentiality provisions of this section unless they separately engage monitoring services. Queries submitted through the API are logged for quota enforcement and abuse detection purposes as described in our Privacy Policy.

5. Limitation of liability

Goalie IP's liability arising from any service provided under these terms — including monitoring engagements, one-time reports, and API access — is limited to the fees you paid for the service giving rise to the claim. We are not liable for any consequential, incidental, or punitive damages arising from reliance on our reports, our search results, or data obtained through the API, including lost profits, rebranding costs, or the cost of trademark applications filed or abandoned.

Our reports and search results are drawn from USPTO bulk data and are current as of our most recent refresh. We do not warrant that our copy of the USPTO register is complete or error-free. A search that returns no conflicting filings is not a representation that no conflicting rights exist, and is not a recommendation to adopt, use, or apply to register a mark.

6. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the state of North Dakota, Goalie IP Inc.'s principal place of business.